The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 5
With that he lifted it and threw it out of hte way, and went on with his burden on his back, and the horses behind him, and arrived at the farm long before any of the others.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: lift, throw, go on, arrive, burden · To what, where: stone, hte way, farm, back
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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lifted | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lifted | nsubj |
| 4 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lifted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 threw | cc |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 threw | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | hte | hte | X | _ | 12 way | compound |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 burden | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 burden | nmod:poss |
| 19 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 back | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 back | nmod:poss |
| 22 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burden | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 horses | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 horses | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 horses | det |
| 26 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lifted | obl |
| 27 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 horses | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 arrived | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 arrived | cc |
| 31 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lifted | conj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 farm | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 farm | det |
| 34 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 arrived | obl |
| 35 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 arrived | advmod |
| 36 | before | before | ADP | _ | 37 any | case |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 arrived | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 others | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 others | det |
| 40 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 any | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Hans | stone | with that; the horses behind him obl | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw | past | Hans not said here | stone | hte way | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme out way=Destination | |||
| 3 | go on | past | Hans not said here | with Hans's burden on Hans's back | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | Hans not said here | the farm | before any | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 5 | burden | Hans | Hans's back | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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