The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 75

He then emptied down all the corn that he could lay his hands on and threshed away.

Who acts: Hans · What happens: empty down, lay, thresh away · To what, where: corn, hands

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.

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 emptied	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 emptied	advmod
3	emptied	empty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 emptied	compound:prt
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 corn	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 corn	det
7	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 emptied	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 lay	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	aux
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 emptied	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lay	obj
14	on	on	ADV	_	11 lay	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 threshed	cc
16	threshed	thresh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 lay	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 threshed	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 emptied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	empty down	past	Hans	all corn	then		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent corn=Source
2	lay	could	Hans	Hans's hands			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result
3	thresh away	participle	Hans not said here			away 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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