The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 23

When night came he climbed up into the same tree as the Englishman had been on the night before.

Who acts: night, other, Englishman · What happens: come, climb up, be · To what, where: same tree

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 (night, other, Englishman), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 climbed	advcl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 climbed	nsubj
5	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 climbed	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	18 night	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Englishman	det
13	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 night	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 night	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 night	cop
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 night	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 night	det
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 climbed	obl
19	before	before	ADV	_	18 night	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	climb up	past	other	the same tree			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination
3	is	past · perfect	the Englishman		as the night	before property	tree rules

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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