The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 49

That was a grand idea, both the squire and his wife thought, and so he limped out again to Hans, and said that he would punish his men for having tried to make a fool of him.

Who acts: That, wife, squire · What happens: be, think, limp out, say, punish, have · To what, where: grand idea, Hans, men, fool · 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 (That, wife, squire), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 idea	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 idea	det
4	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 idea	amod
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 squire	punct
7	both	both	CCONJ	_	9 squire	cc:preconj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 squire	det
9	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 idea	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 squire	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 limped	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 limped	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 limped	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 limped	nsubj
18	limped	limp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	ccomp
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 limped	compound:prt
20	again	again	ADV	_	18 limped	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Hans	case
22	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 limped	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 limped	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 punish	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 punish	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 punish	aux
29	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 men	nmod:poss
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 punish	obj
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 having	mark
33	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 punish	advcl
34	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 having	xcomp
35	to	to	PART	_	36 make	mark
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 tried	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 fool	det
38	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 make	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 him	case
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fool	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 idea	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a grand idea			tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	squire's wife				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	limp out	past	squire		Hans	again	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hans=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	punish	would	squire	squire's men			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
6	have	gerund	squire not said here				tree rules
7	try	participle	squire not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	make	to-infinitive	squire not said here	a fool of squire			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fool=Product

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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