The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 8

When Hans reached the gate of the courtyard, he laid down the trees and hammered at it, but no one came to open it.

Who acts: Hans, squire, one · What happens: reach, lay down, hammer, come, open · To what, where: gate, trees

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, squire, one), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laid	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gate	det
5	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 courtyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 courtyard	det
8	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gate	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 reached	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laid	nsubj
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 laid	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 trees	det
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 laid	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hammered	cc
16	hammered	hammer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 laid	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hammered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laid	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 open	mark
25	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 open	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reach	past	Hans	the gate of the courtyard		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme
2	lay down	past	squire	the trees		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Result
3	hammer	participle	squire not said here		at gate	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient
4	come	past	no one			tree rules
5	open	to-infinitive	no one not said here	gate		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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