The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 64

There were twelve threshing-floors, and the twelve men were at work on six of them--two on each.

Who acts: twelve threshing floors, twelve men · What happens: be, thresh · To what, where: 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 (twelve threshing floors, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 floors	nummod
4	threshing	thresh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 floors	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 threshing	punct
6	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 work	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 men	nummod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 work	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 work	cop
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 work	case
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 six	case
16	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 work	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 six	nmod
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 two	punct
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 six	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 each	case
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 two	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	twelve threshing floors	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	thresh	gerund				tree rules
3	is	past	the twelve men	work	on six of floors	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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