The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 87

As they went on their way Hans told the stranger both about the errand he had on hand and the fun he had had with Old Eric.

Who acts: men, Hans · What happens: go, tell, have · To what, where: way, stranger, hand, fun · 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 (men, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
11	both	both	ADV	_	8 told	advmod
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 errand	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 errand	det
14	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 hand	case
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fun	det
21	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 had	aux
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 had	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 Eric	case
26	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Eric	amod
27	Eric	Eric	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 had	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	men = man			men's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	Hans		the stranger		both property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient
3	have	past	Hans			hand	about the errand	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past · perfect	Hans	the fun			with Old Eric	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=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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