The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 100

On coming to the gate leading into the forest, he was unfortunate enough to break it in pieces, so he took a huge stone that was lying on the field, seven ells long, and seven ells broad, and set this in the gap, then he went on and joined the others.

Who acts: Hans, huge stone · What happens: come, lead, be, break, take, lie · To what, where: gate, forest, difficulty, pieces, huge stone, field

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, huge stone), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 coming	mark
2	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 unfortunate	advcl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 gate	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coming	obl
6	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 coming	conj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leading	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 coming	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 unfortunate	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 unfortunate	cop
13	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 unfortunate	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 break	mark
16	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 unfortunate	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 break	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 pieces	case
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 break	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 took	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	23 took	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 took	nsubj
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 unfortunate	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stone	det
25	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 stone	amod
26	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 took	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lying	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 lying	aux
29	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 stone	acl:relcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 field	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 field	det
32	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lying	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ells	punct
34	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 ells	nummod
35	ells	ell	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 long	obl:unmarked
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 field	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 broad	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 broad	cc
39	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 ells	nummod
40	ells	ell	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 broad	nsubj
41	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 took	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 set	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 set	cc
44	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 broad	conj
45	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 set	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 gap	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 gap	det
48	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 set	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 went	punct
50	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 went	advmod
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 went	nsubj
52	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 took	conj
53	on	on	ADV	_	52 went	advmod
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 joined	cc
55	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 went	conj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 others	det
57	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 joined	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 unfortunate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	Hans not said here		the gate			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
2	lead	gerund	Hans not said here		the forest			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into forest=Destination
3	is	past	Hans				enough, unfortunate property	tree rules
4	break	to-infinitive	Hans not said here	difficulty	pieces			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
5	take	past	Hans	a huge stone				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
6	lie	past · progressive	a huge stone		the field			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on field=Location
7	set	infinitive	Hans not said here	this	the gap			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme in gap=Destination
8	go on	past	Hans			then		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	join	past	Hans not said here	the others				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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