The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 103
He therefore laid down the axe, put his arms round the tree, and pulled it up by the roots.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: lay down, put, pull up · To what, where: axe, arms
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 laid | advmod |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 axe | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 axe | det |
| 6 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 laid | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 put | obj |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pulled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pulled | cc |
| 16 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laid | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pulled | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 pulled | compound:prt |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 roots | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roots | det |
| 21 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pulled | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | past | Hans | the axe | therefore property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Result | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Hans not said here | Hans's arms | round the tree | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal | |||
| 3 | pull up | past | Hans not said here | axe | by the roots | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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