The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 63
He was to thresh that day, said the squire; the other twelve men were already busy at it.
Who acts: Hans, other twelve men · What happens: be, say · To what, where: squire, kitchen · 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, other 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thresh | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thresh | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 thresh | mark |
| 4 | thresh | thresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thresh | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thresh | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 squire | det |
| 10 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 busy | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 14 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 men | nummod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 busy | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 busy | cop |
| 17 | already | already | ADV | _ | 18 busy | advmod |
| 18 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thresh | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 busy | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Hans | day | thresh property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Hans not said here | the squire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent squire=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the other twelve men | kitchen | busy property | tree rules |
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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