The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 67
Then he looked to see how the others did it and did the same, but at hte first stroke he smashed the flail in pieces.
Who acts: man, others · What happens: look, see, do, smash · To what, where: hold, same, flail, hte
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, others), 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 | 3 looked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 did | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 did | cc |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 did | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 smashed | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 smashed | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 hte | case |
| 18 | hte | hte | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smashed | obl |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 stroke | advmod |
| 20 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hte | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 smashed | nsubj |
| 22 | smashed | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flail | det |
| 24 | flail | flail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smashed | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 pieces | case |
| 26 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 smashed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | man | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | do | past | the others | hold | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | do | past | man not said here | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | smash | past | man | the flail | hte stroke | in pieces | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent flail=Theme at hte=Destination |
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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