The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 102

Hans got hold of a woodman’s axe and proceeded to fell a tree, but he destroyed the edge and broke the shaft at the first blow.

Who acts: Hans · What happens: get, proceed, fall, destroy, break, hold · To what, where: hold, tree, edge, shaft, first blow, axe

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), 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 axe	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woodman	det
6	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 axe	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 woodman	case
8	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 proceeded	cc
10	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fell	mark
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 proceeded	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fell	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 destroyed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 destroyed	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 destroyed	nsubj
18	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 edge	det
20	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 destroyed	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 broke	cc
22	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 destroyed	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shaft	det
24	shaft	shaft	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broke	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 blow	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 blow	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 blow	amod
28	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 broke	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	get	past	Hans	hold of a woodman's axe		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
2	proceed	past	Hans not said here			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fall	past	Hans not said here	a tree		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient tree=Result
4	destroy	past	Hans	the edge		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Patient
5	break	past	Hans not said here	the shaft	the first blow	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shaft=Patient
6	hold			a woodman's axe		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 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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