The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 89
She sent for the steward, and it was arranged that next day all the men should go to the forest for fire-wood, and that they should make a bargain among them, that the one who came home last with his load should be hanged.
Who acts: wife, men, Hans, one · What happens: send, arrange, go, make, come, hange · To what, where: steward, forest, bargain, one
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 (wife, men, Hans, one), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 steward | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 steward | det |
| 5 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arranged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 arranged | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arranged | aux:pass |
| 10 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 all | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 men | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 men | det |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 arranged | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 wood | case |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wood | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 fire | punct |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 make | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 make | cc |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 make | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 make | aux |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bargain | det |
| 33 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obj |
| 34 | among | among | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 make | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 hanged | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 hanged | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 one | det |
| 39 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 came | nsubj |
| 41 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 one | acl:relcl |
| 42 | home | home | ADV | _ | 41 came | advmod |
| 43 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 came | xcomp |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 load | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 load | nmod:poss |
| 46 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 last | obl |
| 47 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 hanged | aux |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 hanged | aux:pass |
| 49 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 make | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | wife | for the steward | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arrange | past · passive | steward | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | go | should | all men | the forest | for fire wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | make | should | Hans = han | a bargain | among hands = hand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bargain=Product | |||
| 5 | come | past | the one | home, last property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hange | should · passive | the one | 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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