The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 44

Then the smith came dragging one as thick as a waggon-pole, but Hans bent it over his knee and broke it like a straw.

Who acts: smith, Hans · What happens: come, drag, bend, break · To what, where: staff, knee

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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 smith	det
3	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 thick	nsubj
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 thick	advmod
8	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dragging	ccomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	13 pole	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pole	det
11	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pole	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 waggon	punct
13	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thick	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bent	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 bent	cc
16	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 bent	nsubj
17	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bent	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 knee	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 knee	nmod:poss
21	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bent	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 broke	cc
23	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 broke	obj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 straw	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 straw	det
27	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broke	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the smith			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drag	gerund	the smith not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	bend	past	Hans	staff	smith's knee			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme over knee=Location
4	break	past	the smith not said here	staff			like a straw	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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