The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 80

After walking on and on for eight days and eight nights, she came at last to a tremendously high hill of polished ivory, so steep that it was impossible to get a foothold upon it.

Who acts: sister · What happens: walk on, come, polish, be, get · To what, where: last, foothold

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (sister), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 walking	mark
2	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 walking	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 on	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walking	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nights	cc
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 nights	nummod
11	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 days	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 walking	punct
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 came	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 hill	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hill	det
19	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	_	20 high	advmod
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hill	amod
21	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 ivory	case
23	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ivory	amod
24	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hill	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 steep	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 steep	advmod
27	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 came	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 impossible	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 impossible	expl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 impossible	cop
31	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 steep	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 get	mark
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 impossible	csubj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 foothold	det
35	foothold	foothold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 get	obj
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk on	gerund	sister not said here			day		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	sister		last		to a high hill of polished ivory	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
3	polish	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	sister not said here				impossible property	tree rules
5	get	to-infinitive		a foothold			upon foothold	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foothold=Stimulus

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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