The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 65

She set out with these things, and when she came to the glass mountain which was so slippery she stuck the three needles behind her feet and then in front, and so got over it, and when she was on the other side put them carefully away.

Who acts: leg, glass mountain · What happens: set out, come, be, stick, get, put · To what, where: glass mountain, three needles, feet, front, other side, needles

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leg, glass mountain), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 set	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 things	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 things	det
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 set	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stuck	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 stuck	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stuck	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 mountain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mountain	det
14	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mountain	compound
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 slippery	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 slippery	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 slippery	advmod
19	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mountain	acl:relcl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stuck	nsubj
21	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 needles	det
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 needles	nummod
24	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stuck	obj
25	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 feet	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 feet	nmod:poss
27	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stuck	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 front	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 front	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 front	case
31	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feet	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 got	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 got	cc
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 got	advmod
35	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
36	over	over	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 got	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 put	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 put	cc
40	when	when	SCONJ	_	46 side	mark
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 side	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 side	cop
43	on	on	ADP	_	46 side	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 side	det
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 side	amod
46	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 put	advcl
47	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	parataxis
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 put	obj
49	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	50 away	advmod
50	away	away	ADV	_	47 put	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	leg			with this things	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	leg		the glass mountain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
3	is	past	the glass mountain			slippery property	tree rules
4	stick	past	leg	the three needles	leg's feet and front		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent needle=Theme behind foot=Destination
5	get	past			front		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination
6	is	past	leg		the other side		tree rules
7	put	past		needles = needle		away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal

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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