The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 80

However, when he saw the flail that Hans had used, and learned how he had made room for himself to swing it, he was so afraid of the strong fellow, that he dared not say anything, except that it was a good thing he had got it threshed; but it had still to be cleaned.

Who acts: squire, room · What happens: see, use, learn, make, swing, be · To what, where: flail, room, anything, good thing · 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 (squire, room), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 saw	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flail	det
7	flail	flail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 used	nsubj:pass
9	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 used	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 used	aux
11	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flail	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 learned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 learned	cc
14	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 made	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 learned	ccomp
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 swing	mark
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 swing	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 swing	mark
23	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 room	acl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 swing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 afraid	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 afraid	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 afraid	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 afraid	advmod
29	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saw	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 fellow	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fellow	det
32	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fellow	amod
33	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 afraid	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 say	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 say	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 say	nsubj
37	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 say	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 dared	advmod
39	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 afraid	conj
40	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 say	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 thing	punct
42	except	except	ADP	_	48 thing	case
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 except	fixed
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 thing	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 thing	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 thing	det
47	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 thing	amod
48	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 say	parataxis
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 got	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 got	aux
51	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 thing	acl:relcl
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 threshed	nsubj
53	threshed	thresh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 thing	acl:relcl
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 had	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 had	cc
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 had	nsubj
57	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
58	still	still	ADV	_	57 had	advmod
59	to	to	PART	_	61 cleaned	mark
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 cleaned	aux:pass
61	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 had	advcl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	squire	the flail		however property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flail=Stimulus
2	use	past · perfect · passive		the flail			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	learn	past	squire not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	past · perfect	squire	room			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Product
5	swing	to-infinitive	squire	room			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	is	past	squire			of the strong fellow; afraid property	tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	squire	anything			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
8	is	past	room			except a good thing	tree rules
9	get	past · perfect	squire	a good thing not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
10	thresh	past	room	a good thing not said here			tree rules
11	have	past	room		still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
12	clean	to-infinitive · passive	room not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

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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