The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 1
When Hans had finished his work, he again put his old hacks into the cart, but they could not move it from the spot.
Who acts: he, Hans, his · What happens: finish, put, not move, work · To what, where: Hans, old hacks, cart, work, spot
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, Hans, his), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 put | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 work | nmod:poss |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 finished | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 put | advmod |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hacks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hacks | amod |
| 13 | hacks | hack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 put | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 cart | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cart | det |
| 16 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 move | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 move | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 move | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 move | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 move | advmod |
| 22 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 move | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 spot | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 spot | det |
| 26 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 move | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect · passive | Hans | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put | past | he | his old hacks | the cart | again | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hack=Goal | ||
| 3 | not move | could | Hans = han | work | the spot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from spot=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | work | his = he | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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