The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 37

The whole twelve of them set to work with poles and rollers and rolled the big mill-stone to the brink of the well.

Who acts: whole twelve · What happens: set, work, roll · To what, where: big mill stone, brink

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 (whole twelve), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 twelve	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 twelve	amod
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 set	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 twelve	nmod
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 work	mark
8	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 set	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 poles	case
10	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 work	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rollers	cc
12	rollers	roller	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 poles	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rolled	cc
14	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stone	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stone	amod
17	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stone	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 mill	punct
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rolled	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 brink	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 brink	det
22	brink	brink	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rolled	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 well	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 well	det
25	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brink	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	present	the whole twelve of Hans				tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	the whole twelve of Hans not said here			with poles and rollers	vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pole=Co-Agent
3	roll	past	the whole twelve of Hans not said here	the big mill stone	the brink of the well		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stone=Theme to brink=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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