The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 32

To these he said that they could choose whichever task they liked--either to go down into the well and fill the buckets while he pulled them up, or pull them up, and he alone would go down to the bottom of the well.

Who acts: Hans, men · What happens: say, choose, like, go down, fill, pull up · To what, where: these, task, well, buckets, men · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hans, men), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 these	case
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 said	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 choose	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 choose	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 choose	aux
8	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	whichever	whichever	DET	PronType=Rel	10 task	det
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 choose	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 liked	nsubj
12	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 task	acl:relcl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
14	either	either	CCONJ	_	16 go	cc:preconj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 well	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 well	det
20	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fill	cc
22	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 buckets	det
24	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fill	obj
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 pulled	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pulled	nsubj
27	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fill	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pulled	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 pulled	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 pull	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 pull	cc
32	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 go	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 pull	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 pull	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 go	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 go	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 go	nsubj
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	40 go	advmod
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 go	aux
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	conj
41	down	down	ADV	_	40 go	advmod
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 bottom	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bottom	det
44	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 go	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 well	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 well	det
47	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bottom	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hans		these			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to this=Recipient clause=Topic
2	choose	could	men = man	whichever task				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme
3	like	past	men = man	whichever task not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot task=Theme
4	go down	to-infinitive				the well	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	fill	infinitive		the buckets				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient
6	pull up	past	Hans	men = man				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	pull up	infinitive		men = man				vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
8	go down	would	Hans				to the bottom of the well; alone, down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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