The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 43
The smith brought him an iron rod as thick as an ordinary staff, but Hans took it and twisted it round his finger, so that wouldn’t do.
Who acts: smith, Hans, that · What happens: bring, take, twist, not do · To what, where: iron rod, iron, staff, finger
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 (smith, Hans, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 smith | det |
| 2 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rod | det |
| 6 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rod | amod |
| 7 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 thick | advmod |
| 9 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rod | amod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 staff | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 staff | det |
| 12 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 staff | amod |
| 13 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thick | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 twisted | cc |
| 20 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 twisted | obj |
| 22 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 finger | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 finger | nmod:poss |
| 24 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 twisted | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 do | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 do | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 do | aux |
| 29 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 do | advmod |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 took | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the smith | a iron rod | iron | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination rod=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | Hans | staff | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | twist | past | Hans not said here | staff | iron's finger | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme round finger=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | not do | would | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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