The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 104

This he threw upon his cart, and then another and another, and thus he went on while all the others forgot their work, and stood with open mouths, gazing at this strange woodcraft.

Who acts: This, Hans, others · What happens: throw, go on, forget, stand, gaze, work · To what, where: cart, work

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 (This, Hans, others), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 threw	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 cart	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cart	nmod:poss
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 another	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 another	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 another	advmod
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 threw	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 another	cc
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 another	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
15	thus	thus	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 went	compound:prt
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 forgot	mark
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 others	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 others	det
22	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 forgot	nsubj
23	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 work	nmod:poss
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 forgot	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stood	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 stood	cc
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 mouths	case
30	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mouths	amod
31	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stood	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 gazing	punct
33	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 stood	advcl
34	at	at	ADP	_	37 woodcraft	case
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 woodcraft	det
36	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 woodcraft	amod
37	woodcraft	woodcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gazing	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	This		Hans's cart		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon cart=Destination
2	go on	past	Hans			thus property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	forget	past	all others	others's work			tree rules
4	stand	past	This not said here			with open mouths	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gaze	gerund	This not said here			at this strange woodcraft	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at woodcraft=Theme
6	work		others = other				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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