The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 86

He got his provisions tied up again, and laid them on the horse’s back; then he took hold of the reins and said to the man, ‘We two can go along together on foot.’

Who acts: Hans, We · What happens: get, tie up, lay, take, say, go along · To what, where: provisions, back, hold, foot, reins · 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 (Hans, We), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 provisions	nmod:poss
4	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 provisions	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 tied	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 tied	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 laid	cc
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laid	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 back	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 back	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 horse	case
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 took	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
21	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 reins	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 reins	det
24	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hold	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 took	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 man	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 go	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 go	punct
32	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 go	nsubj
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 go	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 go	aux
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
36	along	along	ADV	_	35 go	advmod
37	together	together	ADV	_	35 go	advmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 foot	case
39	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Hans	Hans's provisions				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer provision=Stimulus
2	tie up	participle		Hans's provisions not said here		again		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	lay	past	Hans not said here	provisions = provision	the horse's back			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on back=Destination
4	take	past	Hans	hold of the reins		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	Hans not said here				to the man	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to man=Experiencer clause=Topic
6	go along	can	We		foot		along, together property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on foot=Location
7	provide		Hans					nom provision «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
8	hold			the reins				nom hold «act 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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