The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 143

First of all, though, they had to get a ladder of fourteen steps, to enable them to get on to the Eagle’s back, and there they piled up the meat as well as they could.

Who acts: men · What happens: have, get, enable, get on, pile up · To what, where: ladder, men, meat

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 had	advmod
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 First	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 First	punct
5	though	though	ADV	_	8 had	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ladder	det
12	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 steps	case
14	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 steps	nummod
15	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ladder	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 enable	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 enable	mark
18	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 get	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 enable	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 enable	xcomp
22	on	on	ADV	_	21 get	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Eagle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Eagle	det
25	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 ’s	obl
26	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 get	advcl
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 ’s	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 piled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 piled	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 piled	expl
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 piled	nsubj
32	piled	pile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 piled	compound:prt
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 meat	det
35	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 piled	obj
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 well	advmod
37	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 piled	advmod
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 could	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 could	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 well	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	men = man			first, though property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	a ladder of fourteen steps			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ladder=Stimulus
3	enable	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	men = man			tree rules
4	get on	to-infinitive	men = man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	pile up	past	men = man	the meat	there	well property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent meat=Theme

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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