The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 72

The one beam he used as a handle, and the other to strike with, and now that was all right.

Who acts: one beam, that · What happens: use, strike, be

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 (one beam, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 beam	det
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 beam	nummod
3	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	nsubj
5	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 handle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 handle	det
8	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 other	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 other	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 used	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 strike	mark
14	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 other	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	14 strike	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 right	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 right	cc
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 right	advmod
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 right	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 right	advmod
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 used	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	the one beam		as a handle	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	strike	to-infinitive	the one beam not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	that	now	all, right property	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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