The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 102

The mother of the genius began to climb up it, and though they galloped quickly, she was quicker still.

Who acts: mother, mountains · What happens: begin, climb up, gallop, be · To what, where: ear

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, mountains), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 genius	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 genius	det
5	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 climb	mark
8	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 climb	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 galloped	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 galloped	cc
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 galloped	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 galloped	nsubj
15	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
16	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 galloped	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 quicker	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 quicker	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 quicker	cop
20	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 galloped	conj
21	still	still	ADV	_	20 quicker	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the mother of the genius				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	climb up	to-infinitive	the mother of the genius not said here	ear			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
3	gallop	past	mountains = mountain			quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	mother		still	quick 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 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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