The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 52

‘Very well,’ said Hans, ‘I shall easily do twelve men’s work, but then I must also have as much to eat as the twelve would.’

Who acts: Hans, I, twelve men · What happens: say, do, have, eat, work · To what, where: work, much · Speech: someone speaks here

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, I, twelve men), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 do	advmod
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 men	nummod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 work	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 men	case
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 have	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	also	also	ADV	_	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 have	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 much	acl
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 twelve	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 twelve	det
31	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 would	obl
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 eat	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hans			well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do	shall	I	twelve men's work		easily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	have	must	I	much	then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
4	eat	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	work		twelve men				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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