The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 54
The squire said that he could easily get all that, so Hans got all of these tied up together, hung them over his shoulder on his good staff, and tramped away to Devilmoss Lake.
Who acts: squire, Hans · What happens: say, get, tie up, hang, tramp away · To what, where: that, all, men, shoulder, Devilmoss Lake · 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 (squire, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 squire | det |
| 2 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 7 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 that | det:predet |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 13 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 got | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 these | case |
| 17 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 all | nmod |
| 18 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 all | acl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 tied | compound:prt |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 tied | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hung | punct |
| 22 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hung | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 shoulder | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 26 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hung | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 staff | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 staff | nmod:poss |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 staff | amod |
| 30 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hung | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tramped | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 tramped | cc |
| 33 | tramped | tramp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 tramped | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 Lake | case |
| 36 | Devilmoss | Devilmoss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Lake | compound |
| 37 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 tramped | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the squire | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | could | squire | that | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | get | past | Hans | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | tie up | participle | together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | hang | past | Hans not said here | men = man | Hans's shoulder | on Hans's good staff | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over shoulder=Destination | ||
| 6 | tramp away | past | the squire not said here | Devilmoss Lake | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to lake=Destination |
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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