The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 91

In the evening, therefore, the men sat and talked together, saying that next morning they must set out early to the forest, and as they had a hard day’s work and a long journey before them, they would, for their amusement, make a compact, that whichever of them came home last with his load should lose his life on the gallows.

Who acts: men, Hans, whichever, hard day · What happens: sit, talk, say, set out, have, make · To what, where: forest, work, compact, life, gallows · 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 (men, Hans, whichever, hard day), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 therefore	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 talked	cc
11	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 talked	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 talked	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 set	mark
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 morning	amod
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obl:unmarked
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 set	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 set	aux
20	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 saying	ccomp
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 set	compound:prt
22	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 set	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 set	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 day	det
32	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 work	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 day	case
35	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 journey	cc
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 journey	det
38	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 journey	amod
39	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 work	conj
40	before	before	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 would	punct
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 would	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	advcl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 amusement	punct
46	for	for	ADP	_	48 amusement	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 amusement	nmod:poss
48	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 make	punct
50	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sat	advcl
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 compact	det
52	compact	compact	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 make	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 came	punct
54	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	55 whichever	det
55	whichever	whichever	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 came	nsubj
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 them	case
57	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 whichever	nmod
58	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 lose	advcl
59	home	home	ADV	_	58 came	advmod
60	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 came	xcomp
61	with	with	ADP	_	63 load	case
62	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 load	nmod:poss
63	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 last	obl
64	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	65 lose	aux
65	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 sat	parataxis
66	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 life	nmod:poss
67	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 lose	obj
68	on	on	ADP	_	70 gallows	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 gallows	det
70	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 lose	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the men			evening	therefore property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	past	the men not said here				together property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the men not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	set out	must	Hans = han		the forest	morning	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location
5	have	past	Hans = han	a hard day's work and a long journey		before others = other		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
6	make	infinitive	the men not said here	a compact				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset compact=Product
7	come	past	that whichever of Hans				home, last property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	lose	should		man's life	the gallows			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
9	work		a hard day					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
10	amuse		Hans = han					nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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