The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 82

None of his friends came to visit him there, for there were too many stairs to climb.

Who acts: None, many stairs · What happens: come, visit, be, climb · To what, where: soldier

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (None, many stairs), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 came	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 friends	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 None	nmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 visit	mark
7	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 visit	obj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 visit	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 were	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 were	mark
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 were	expl
13	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stairs	amod
16	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 were	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 climb	mark
18	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stairs	acl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	None			tree rules
2	visit	to-infinitive	None not said here	soldier	there	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	be	past	many stairs		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	climb	to-infinitive	many stairs not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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