The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 36
They then saw that they could not kill him with little stones, but they had still the big one left.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: see, not kill, have, leave · To what, where: Hans, big one · 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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 kill | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 kill | advmod |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kill | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 stones | case |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stones | amod |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kill | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 had | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 one | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Hans = han | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not kill | could | Hans = han | Hans | with little stones | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with stone=Instrument | |||
| 3 | have | past | Hans = han | the big one | still | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 4 | leave | participle | the big one not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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