The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 2
He was annoyed at this, and took them out again, twisted a rope round the cart, and all the trees, lifted the whole affair on his back, and set off home, leading the horses behind him by the rein.
Who acts: He, trees · What happens: be, take out, twist, lift, set off, lead · To what, where: this, hacks, rope, cart, whole affair, back
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, trees), 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 annoyed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 annoyed | cop |
| 3 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 annoyed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 annoyed | parataxis |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 took | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 twisted | punct |
| 13 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rope | det |
| 15 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twisted | obj |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 cart | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cart | det |
| 18 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twisted | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lifted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lifted | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 trees | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 trees | det |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lifted | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 trees | punct |
| 25 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 affair | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 affair | amod |
| 28 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lifted | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 back | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 back | nmod:poss |
| 31 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lifted | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 home | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 home | cc |
| 34 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 home | amod |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 set | compound:prt |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lifted | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 leading | punct |
| 38 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 lifted | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 horses | det |
| 40 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 leading | obj |
| 41 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 leading | obl |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 rein | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 rein | det |
| 45 | rein | rein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 leading | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | this | annoyed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take out | past | hacks = hack | again | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | twist | past | a rope | the cart | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rope=Theme round cart=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | lift | past | all trees | the whole affair | his back | set home obl | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent affair=Theme on back=Destination | ||
| 5 | set off | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | lead | gerund | all trees not said here | the horses | behind him = he; by the rein | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme behind he=Destination |
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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