The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 71
With the beams he made a flail, using the skin to tie them together.
Who acts: flail · What happens: make, use, tie · To what, where: flail, skin, beams
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 (flail), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 beams | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beams | det |
| 3 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flail | det |
| 7 | flail | flail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 using | punct |
| 9 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 made | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 using | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 tie | mark |
| 13 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 using | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tie | obj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 tie | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | flail | a flail | with the beams | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flail=Product | |||
| 2 | use | gerund | flail not said here | the skin | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tie | to-infinitive | flail not said here | beams = beam | together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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