The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 92
Then he got tired of waiting, and smashed at the gate with his staff until he knocked it in pieces and got inside.
Who acts: Hans · What happens: get, wait, smash, knock · To what, where: gate, pieces
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 waiting | mark |
| 6 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tired | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 smashed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 smashed | cc |
| 9 | smashed | smash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 got | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smashed | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 staff | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 staff | nmod:poss |
| 15 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gate | nmod |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 knocked | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knocked | nsubj |
| 18 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 smashed | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knocked | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pieces | case |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 knocked | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 got | cc |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 knocked | conj |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 23 got | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Hans | then | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | Hans not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smash | participle | Hans not said here | at the gate with Hans's staff | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at gate=Patient | ||||
| 4 | knock | past | Hans | gate | pieces | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in piece=Destination | |||
| 5 | get | past | Hans not said here | inside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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