The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 25

Then he climbed higher still, and finding as he went dumb watchers sitting on every landing, treated them as he had done the first.

Who acts: fellow, dumb watchers · What happens: climb, find, go, sit, treat, do · To what, where: dumb watchers, landing, watchers, first · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, dumb watchers), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 climbed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 climbed	nsubj
3	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 still	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	3 climbed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 finding	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 finding	cc
8	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 climbed	advcl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 went	mark
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	8 finding	ccomp
12	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 watchers	amod
13	watchers	watcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 went	obj
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 watchers	acl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 landing	case
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 landing	det
17	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 treated	punct
19	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climbed	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 treated	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 done	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 done	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 treated	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 first	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 done	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	climb	past	fellow			then; still	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	gerund	fellow not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	past	fellow	dumb watchers			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location watcher=Theme
4	sit	gerund	dumb watchers not said here		every landing		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on landing=Location
5	treat	past	fellow not said here	watchers = watcher			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	do	past · perfect	fellow	the first			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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