The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 34

Hans therefore went down alone, and began to clean out the well, but the men had arranged how they were to act, and immediately each of them seized a stone from a heap of huge blocks, and threw them down above him, thinking to kill him with these.

Who acts: Hans, men, each · What happens: go down, begin, clean out, arrange, act, seize · To what, where: the, stone, heap, men, Hans

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, each), 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 clean	mark
10	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 clean	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clean	obj
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 clean	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 arranged	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 arranged	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 arranged	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 arranged	aux
19	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 began	conj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 act	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 act	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 act	aux
23	to	to	PART	_	24 act	mark
24	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 arranged	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seized	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 seized	cc
27	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	28 each	advmod
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 seized	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 each	nmod
31	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stone	det
33	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seized	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 heap	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 heap	det
36	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seized	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 blocks	case
38	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 blocks	amod
39	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 heap	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 threw	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 threw	cc
42	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 threw	obj
44	down	down	ADP	_	42 threw	compound:prt
45	above	above	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 threw	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 thinking	punct
48	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 threw	advcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 kill	mark
50	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 thinking	xcomp
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 kill	obj
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 these	case
53	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	50 kill	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past	Hans			alone, down, therefore property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	clean out	to-infinitive		the		well property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent the=Patient
4	arrange	past · perfect	the men				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	act	past	men = man				vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	seize	past	each	a stone	a heap of huge blocks		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from heap=Source
7	throw down	past	Hans not said here	men = man		above Hans	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme above he=Destination
8	think speech: other	gerund	Hans not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	kill	to-infinitive	Hans not said here	Hans		with these	vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with this=Instrument

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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