The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 31
With these words he began to climb the ladder, in order to take the little man from the bell and carry out his threat.
Who acts: place · What happens: begin, climb, take, carry out · To what, where: ladder, little man, bell, threat
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 (place), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 began | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 climb | mark |
| 7 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladder | det |
| 9 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climb | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 take | mark |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 in | fixed |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 climb | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 bell | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bell | det |
| 20 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carry | cc |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 carry | compound:prt |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 threat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | place | with this words | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | climb | to-infinitive | place not said here | the ladder | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | place not said here | the little man | the bell | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent man=Theme from bell=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | carry out | infinitive | place not said here | place's threat | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threat=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/31/