The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 91

It was a long and steep climb, but at last he found her, and with a low bow he began:

Who acts: top, prince · What happens: be, find, begin · To what, where: long climb, woman, last, low bow

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (top, prince), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 climb	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 climb	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 climb	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 climb	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 steep	cc
6	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	climb	climb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 climb	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bow	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bow	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 bow	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bow	det
19	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bow	amod
20	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climb	parataxis
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bow	acl:relcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	top	a long climb		tree rules
2	find	past	prince	woman	last	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at last=Asset
3	begin	past	prince	a low bow not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=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.

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