The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 21

It seemed difficult to get up these, but he went along the foot of them for a little, till at last he tried to climb up, which at last he did.

Who acts: It, Prince · What happens: seem, get up, go, try, climb up, do · To what, where: these, foot, last

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 seemed	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 get	compound:prt
7	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 get	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
12	along	along	ADP	_	14 foot	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 foot	det
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 foot	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 little	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 little	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tried	punct
21	till	till	ADP	_	23 last	case
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tried	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tried	nsubj
25	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 climb	mark
27	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tried	xcomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 climb	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 last	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 last	nsubj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 last	case
32	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 climb	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 did	nsubj
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 last	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It				difficult property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	get up	to-infinitive		these				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	go	past	Prince		the foot of rocks		for a little	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent along foot=Location for little=Theme
4	try	past	Prince			till last		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	climb up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		last			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory
6	do	past	Prince	last not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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