The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 77

When he was finished with this, he lifted the roof up on the barn again, like setting a lid on a box, and went in and told the squire that the job was done.

Who acts: Hans · What happens: finish, lift up, set, go in, tell, do · To what, where: Hans, roof, barn, lid, box, squire · Speech: someone speaks here

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 finished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux:pass
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lifted	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 finished	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lifted	nsubj
9	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roof	det
11	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lifted	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	9 lifted	compound:prt
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 barn	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 barn	det
15	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lifted	obl
16	again	again	ADV	_	9 lifted	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 setting	punct
18	like	like	SCONJ	_	19 setting	mark
19	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lifted	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 lid	det
21	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 setting	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 box	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 box	det
24	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 setting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 went	cc
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lifted	parataxis
28	in	in	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 told	cc
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 went	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 squire	det
32	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	iobj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 done	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 job	det
35	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 done	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 done	aux:pass
37	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 told	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · passive		Hans				with this	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: subject=Eventuality with this=Subeventuality
2	lift up	past	Hans	the roof		the barn	again		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent roof=Theme on barn=Destination
3	set	gerund	Hans not said here	a lid		a box			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme on box=Destination
4	go in	past							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past			the squire				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent squire=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do	past · passive		the job					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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