The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 76
He went through one lot after another, and it was ll the same to him what he got hold of, so before midday he had threshed all the squire’s grain, his rye and wheat and barley and oats, all mixed through each other.
Who acts: Hans, lot · What happens: go, be, get, thresh, mix · To what, where: one lot, Hans, hold, grain, each
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, lot), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 lot | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 lot | nummod |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 another | case |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 same | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 same | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 same | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 same | cop |
| 12 | ll | ll | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 same | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 same | obl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 went | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hold | fixed |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 threshed | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 threshed | advmod |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 midday | case |
| 25 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 threshed | obl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 threshed | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 threshed | aux |
| 28 | threshed | thresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 went | parataxis |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 grain | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 squire | det |
| 31 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grain | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 squire | case |
| 33 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 threshed | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rye | punct |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 rye | nmod:poss |
| 36 | rye | rye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 threshed | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 wheat | cc |
| 38 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rye | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 barley | cc |
| 40 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rye | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 oats | cc |
| 42 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 barley | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 all | punct |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 threshed | conj |
| 45 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 all | acl |
| 46 | through | through | ADP | _ | 47 each | case |
| 47 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 45 mixed | obl |
| 48 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 each | fixed |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Hans | one lot | after another | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through lot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | lot | Hans | same property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get | past | Hans | hold | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | thresh | past · perfect | Hans | the squire's grain | before midday | Hans's rye and wheat and barley and oats obl | tree rules | ||
| 5 | mix | participle | each | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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