The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 35

Hans, however, gave no more heed to this than to shout up to them, to keep the hens away from the well, for they were scraping gravel down on the top of him.

Who acts: Hans · What happens: give, shout up, keep, scrape down · To what, where: more heed, this, Hans, hens, gravel, top

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), 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	5 gave	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hans	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 heed	det
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 heed	amod
8	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 this	case
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 gave	obl
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 shout	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 shout	mark
13	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gave	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 shout	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shout	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 keep	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 keep	mark
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 shout	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hens	det
21	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 keep	obj
22	away	away	ADV	_	19 keep	advmod
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 well	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 well	det
25	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 away	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 scraping	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 scraping	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 scraping	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 scraping	aux
30	scraping	scrape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 keep	advcl
31	gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scraping	obj
32	down	down	ADV	_	30 scraping	advmod
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 top	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 top	det
35	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 scraping	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 top	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Hans	no more heed	this		however property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heed=Theme to this=Recipient
2	shout up speech: express	to-infinitive	Hans not said here		Hans = han			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
3	keep	to-infinitive	Hans not said here	the hens			away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme
4	scrape down	past · progressive	Hans = han	gravel		the top of Hans	down property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent gravel=Theme on top=Trajectory

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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