The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 3
To accomplish this I had to climb up a long ladder into the hayloft, and bring down, one after another, twenty-four handfuls of hay.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: accomplish, have, climb up, bring down · To what, where: this, long ladder, hayloft
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 accomplish | mark |
| 2 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bring | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 accomplish | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 accomplish | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 climb | mark |
| 7 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 climb | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ladder | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ladder | amod |
| 11 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climb | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 hayloft | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hayloft | det |
| 14 | hayloft | hayloft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climb | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bring | cc |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 bring | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 bring | conj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 another | case |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 handfuls | punct |
| 24 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 four | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 twenty | punct |
| 26 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 handfuls | nummod |
| 27 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 hay | case |
| 29 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 handfuls | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish | to-infinitive | you not said here | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | climb up | to-infinitive | I not said here | a long ladder | the hayloft | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=Theme | |||
| 4 | bring down | imperative | you not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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