The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 83
Hans began to take up a little and sift it in his hands, but he soon saw that this would never do.
Who acts: Hans, this · What happens: begin, take up, sift, see, not do · To what, where: little, room, hands · 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, this), 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 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 take | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 take | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sift | cc |
| 9 | sift | sift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sift | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 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 | 9 sift | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 saw | advmod |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 do | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 do | advmod |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 saw | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Hans | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | take up | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | a little | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sift | infinitive | Hans not said here | room | Hans's hands | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | see | past | Hans | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not do | would | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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