The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 9
He then took the trees and tossed them over the barn into the yard, and the cart after them, so that every wheel flew off in a different direction.
Who acts: squire, wheel · What happens: take, toss, fly off · To what, where: trees, barn, different direction
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, wheel), 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 | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trees | det |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tossed | cc |
| 7 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tossed | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 barn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 barn | det |
| 11 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tossed | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 yard | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 yard | det |
| 14 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tossed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cart | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cart | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cart | det |
| 18 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cart | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flew | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 flew | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 wheel | det |
| 25 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 flew | compound:prt |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 direction | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 direction | det |
| 30 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 direction | amod |
| 31 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flew | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | squire | the trees | then | the cart after trees obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||
| 2 | toss | past | squire not said here | trees = tree | the barn | into the yard | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Patient into yard=Recipient | ||
| 3 | fly off | past | every wheel | a different direction | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Location |
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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