The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 45

Then he packed his gold into the barrel, covered it well with a layer of nails, hoisted it on to the wheelbarrow with some difficulty, and set off with it upon his homeward way.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: pack, cover, hoist on, set off · To what, where: gold, barrel, wheelbarrow

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 packed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 packed	nsubj
3	packed	pack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gold	nmod:poss
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 packed	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 barrel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 barrel	det
8	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 packed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 covered	punct
10	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 covered	obj
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 covered	advmod
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 layer	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 layer	det
15	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 nails	case
17	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 layer	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hoisted	punct
19	hoisted	hoist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 packed	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hoisted	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	19 hoisted	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 wheelbarrow	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wheelbarrow	det
24	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hoisted	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 difficulty	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 difficulty	det
27	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wheelbarrow	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 set	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 set	cc
30	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 packed	conj
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 set	compound:prt
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	obl
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 way	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 way	nmod:poss
36	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 way	compound
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 set	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 packed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	past	Peter	Peter's gold	the barrel	then		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Theme into barrel=Destination
2	cover	past	Peter not said here	gold			with a layer of nails; well property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with layer=Theme
3	hoist on	past	Peter not said here	gold	the wheelbarrow with some difficulty			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wheelbarrow=Destination
4	set off	infinitive	Peter not said here				with wheelbarrow; upon Peter's homeward way	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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