The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 68

The squire therefore made his way to the men’s quarters, to speak to Hans, and it took him all his time to push his way along the walls, under the eaves, on account of the fish that filled the yard.

Who acts: squire, it, fish · What happens: make, speak, take, push, fill, account · To what, where: way, Hans, eaves, walls, yard, fish · 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, it, fish), 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	4 made	nsubj
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 quarters	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 quarters	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 men	case
11	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 speak	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 speak	mark
14	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Hans	case
16	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 speak	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 took	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 time	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 time	nmod:poss
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 push	mark
26	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 time	acl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 way	nmod:poss
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 push	obj
29	along	along	ADP	_	31 walls	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 walls	det
31	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 push	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 eaves	punct
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 eaves	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 eaves	det
35	eaves	eave	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 took	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 account	punct
37	on	on	ADP	_	38 account	case
38	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 fish	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 fish	det
41	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 account	nmod
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 filled	nsubj
43	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 fish	acl:relcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 yard	det
45	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 filled	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the squire	squire's way				to the men's quarters; therefore property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive			Hans				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to hans=Co-Agent
3	take	past	it	way		the eaves	time	on account of the fish	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on account=Destination
4	push	to-infinitive		squire's way		the walls			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme along wall=Trajectory
5	fill	past	the fish	the yard					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yard=Patient
6	account			the fish					nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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