The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 74
Hans, however, found a remedy for this--he simply lifted the whole roof off the barn, and set it down in the field beside.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: find, lift, set down · To what, where: remedy, whole roof, barn, field
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 (Hans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:1331): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hans | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 found | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 remedy | det |
| 7 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 remedy | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 lifted | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lifted | nsubj |
| 12 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 13 lifted | advmod |
| 13 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roof | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 roof | amod |
| 16 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | obj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 barn | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 barn | det |
| 19 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 set | cc |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lifted | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 set | obj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 field | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 field | det |
| 27 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 28 | beside | beside | ADV | _ | 27 field | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Hans | a remedy | for this; however property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent remedy=Theme for this=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | lift | past | Hans | the whole roof | the barn | simply property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent roof=Theme off barn=Destination | ||
| 3 | set down | past | Hans not said here | barn | the field | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in field=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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