The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 43
Saying this, he bent down his head and shook the stone off, so that it crushed one of the squire’s big toes.
Who acts: Hans, stone · What happens: say, bend down, shake off, crush · To what, where: this, head, stone, 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, stone), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 bent | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bent | nsubj |
| 5 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 bent | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bent | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bent | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shook | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 shook | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crushed | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 crushed | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 crushed | nsubj |
| 18 | crushed | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shook | parataxis |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 crushed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 toes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 squire | det |
| 22 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 toes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 squire | case |
| 24 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 toes | amod |
| 25 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Hans not said here | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bend down | past | Hans | Hans's head | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material | ||||
| 3 | shake off | past | Hans not said here | the stone | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | ||||
| 4 | crush | past | stone | one of the squire's big toes | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument one=Patient |
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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