The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 68

There were several flails hanging there, and Hans took the one after the other, but they all went the same way, every one flying in splinters at the first stroke.

Who acts: several flails, Hans, others, one · What happens: be, hang, take, go, fly · To what, where: one, same way, splinters

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 (several flails, Hans, others, one), 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	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flails	amod
4	flails	flail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 flails	acl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hanging	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
9	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 other	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 went	advmod
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 one	det
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 way	appos
27	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 one	acl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 splinters	case
29	splinters	splinter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flying	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 stroke	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stroke	det
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 stroke	amod
33	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flying	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	several flails		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hang	gerund	several flails not said here		there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	past	Hans	the one		after the other		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	go	past	others = other	the same way				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
5	fly	gerund	every one not said here		splinters		at the first stroke	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in splinter=Location

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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