The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 66
He went out to the barn and got hold of a flail.
Who acts: man · What happens: go out, get, hold · To what, where: hold, flail
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 (man), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 barn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 barn | det |
| 6 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 got | cc |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 flail | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flail | det |
| 12 | flail | flail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | man | to the barn; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past | man not said here | hold of a flail | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hold | a flail | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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