The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 82

It was explained to him that the corn and the chaff had to be separated; as yet both were lying in one heap, right up to the roof.

Who acts: corn, both · What happens: explain, have, separate, lie · To what, where: room, squire, one heap · 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 (corn, both), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 explained	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 explained	aux:pass
3	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 explained	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 corn	det
8	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chaff	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chaff	det
11	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 corn	conj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 explained	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	15 separated	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 separated	aux:pass
15	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 had	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lying	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 lying	mark
18	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 lying	advmod
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	21 lying	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lying	aux
21	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 explained	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 heap	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 heap	nummod
24	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 roof	punct
26	right	right	ADV	_	30 roof	advmod
27	up	up	ADP	_	30 roof	case
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 roof	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 roof	det
30	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lying	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 explained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	past · passive		room	squire				tree rules
2	have	past	the corn and the chaff						tree rules
3	separate	to-infinitive · passive	the corn and the chaff not said here						vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»
4	lie	past · progressive	both			one heap	yet	up the roof	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location

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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