The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 92

At last the mother got impatient and climbed up herself, but she was even less successful than Little One-eye and Little Three-eyes in catching hold of the fruit, and only grasped at the empty air.

Who acts: last mother, mother · What happens: get, climb up, be, catch, grasp, hold · To what, where: mother, hold, empty air, fruit

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last mother, mother), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 climbed	cc
8	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 climbed	compound:prt
10	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 climbed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 successful	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 successful	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 successful	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 successful	cop
15	even	even	ADV	_	16 less	advmod
16	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 successful	advmod
17	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	parataxis
18	than	than	ADP	_	22 eye	case
19	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 eye	amod
20	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 eye	nummod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 One	punct
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 successful	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eyes	cc
24	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eyes	amod
25	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 eyes	nummod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Three	punct
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eye	conj
28	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 catching	mark
29	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 successful	advcl
30	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 catching	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 fruit	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fruit	det
33	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hold	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 grasped	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 grasped	cc
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 grasped	advmod
37	grasped	grasp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 successful	conj
38	at	at	ADP	_	41 air	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 air	det
40	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 air	amod
41	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 grasped	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	the last mother			impatient property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	climb up	past	the last mother not said here	mother			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	mother			than Little One eye and Little Three eyes; less, successful property	tree rules
4	catch	gerund	mother not said here	hold of the fruit			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
5	grasp	participle	mother not said here		the empty air		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	hold			the fruit			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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