The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 84

He soon thought of a plan, however; he opened both barn-doors, and then lay down at one end and blew, so that all the chaff flew out and lay like a sand-bank at the other end of the barn, and the grain was as clean as it could be.

Who acts: Hans, chaff, grain · What happens: think, open, lie down, blow, fly out, lay · To what, where: barn doors, one end, other end

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, chaff, grain), 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	3 thought	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 thought	advmod
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 plan	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plan	det
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 however	punct
8	however	however	ADV	_	3 thought	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 opened	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 opened	nsubj
11	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 doors	det
13	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 doors	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 barn	punct
15	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 opened	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lay	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 lay	advmod
19	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 opened	advcl
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 lay	advmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 end	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 end	nummod
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lay	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 blew	cc
25	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 opened	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flew	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	32 flew	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 flew	mark
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 chaff	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chaff	det
31	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flew	nsubj
32	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 flew	compound:prt
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 lay	cc
35	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 flew	conj
36	like	like	ADP	_	40 bank	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bank	det
38	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bank	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 sand	punct
40	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lay	obl
41	at	at	ADP	_	44 end	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 end	det
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 end	amod
44	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lay	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 barn	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 barn	det
47	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 end	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 clean	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 clean	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 grain	det
51	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 clean	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 clean	cop
53	as	as	ADV	_	54 clean	advmod
54	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 flew	conj
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 be	mark
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 be	nsubj
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 be	aux
58	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 clean	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Hans			of a plan; however, soon property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	open	past	Hans	both barn doors			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
3	lie down	past	Hans not said here		at one end; then	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location
4	blow	past	Hans not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	fly out	past	all chaff				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lay	infinitive	all chaff not said here		at the other end of the barn	like a sand bank	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at end=Destination
7	is	past	the grain			clean property	tree rules

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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