The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 38

It was with the greatest difficulty that they got it thrown down there, and now they had no doubt that he had got all that he wanted.

Who acts: whole twelve, Hans, that · What happens: be, get, throw down, have, want · To what, where: that, doubt

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, Hans, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 difficulty	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 difficulty	cop
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 difficulty	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 difficulty	det
5	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 difficulty	amod
6	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 got	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 difficulty	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	obj
11	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 got	xcomp
12	down	down	ADV	_	13 there	advmod
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 thrown	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 had	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 doubt	det
20	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 got	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 got	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 got	aux
24	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 had	xcomp
25	all	all	ADV	_	28 wanted	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 wanted	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wanted	nsubj
28	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 got	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 difficulty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	whole twelve = twelve				with the greatest difficulty	tree rules
2	get	past	Hans = han	that				tree rules
3	throw down	participle	that not said here		there			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	past	Hans = han	no doubt		now		tree rules
5	get	past · perfect	Hans					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	want	past	Hans				all property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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