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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 59

With that he caught Old Eric by the back of the neck with one hand, and hammered away on his back with the staff, till he beat him out as flat as a pancake.

Who acts: Hans · What happens: catch, hammer away, beat out · To what, where: Old Eric, back, Eric

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

caseoblnsubjamodobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasenummodnmodpunctccconjadvmodcasenmod:possoblcasedetnmodpunctmarknsubjconjobjcompound:prtadvmodxcompcasedetoblpunctrootWithADPthatPRONhePRONcaughtVERBOldADJEricPROPNbyADPtheDETbackNOUNofADPtheDETneckNOUNwithADPoneNUMhandNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhammeredVERBawayADVonADPhisPRONbackNOUNwithADPtheDETstaffNOUN,PUNCTtillSCONJhePRONbeatVERBhimPRONoutADPasADVflatADJasADPaDETpancakeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WithwithADP_2 thatcase
2thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 caughtobl
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 caughtnsubj
4caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5OldoldADJDegree=Pos6 Ericamod
6EricEricPROPNNumber=Sing4 caughtobj
7bybyADP_9 backcase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 backdet
9backbackNOUNNumber=Sing4 caughtobl
10ofofADP_12 neckcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 neckdet
12neckneckNOUNNumber=Sing9 backnmod
13withwithADP_15 handcase
14oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 handnummod
15handhandNOUNNumber=Sing12 necknmod
16,,PUNCT_18 hammeredpunct
17andandCCONJ_18 hammeredcc
18hammeredhammerVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 caughtconj
19awayawayADV_18 hammeredadvmod
20ononADP_22 backcase
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 backnmod:poss
22backbackNOUNNumber=Sing18 hammeredobl
23withwithADP_25 staffcase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 staffdet
25staffstaffNOUNNumber=Sing22 backnmod
26,,PUNCT_29 beatpunct
27tilltillSCONJ_29 beatmark
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 beatnsubj
29beatbeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 hammeredconj
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 beatobj
31outoutADP_29 beatcompound:prt
32asasADV_33 flatadvmod
33flatflatADJDegree=Pos29 beatxcomp
34asasADP_36 pancakecase
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 pancakedet
36pancakepancakeNOUNNumber=Sing33 flatobl
37..PUNCT_4 caughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1catchpastHansOld Ericwith that; by the back of the neck with one handvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eric=Theme
2hammer awaypastHans not said hereHans's back with the staffaway propertyvn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
3beat outpastHansEricflat propertyvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

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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