The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 100

He fixed an iron spike into one of the beams of the roof, and ran his head against this till he had knocked several large pieces off his head.

Who acts: father, till · What happens: fix, run, knock, beam · To what, where: iron spike, head, till, father, roof

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, till), 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 fixed	nsubj
2	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spike	det
4	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spike	amod
5	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fixed	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 fixed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 beams	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beams	det
10	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 roof	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roof	det
13	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beams	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fixed	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obj
19	against	against	ADP	_	21 till	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 till	det
21	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knocked	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 knocked	aux
24	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 till	acl:relcl
25	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pieces	amod
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 pieces	amod
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 knocked	obj
28	off	off	ADP	_	30 head	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pieces	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fix	past	father	a iron spike		into one of the beams of the roof	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent spike=Patient into one=Co-Patient
2	run	past	father not said here	father's head	this till		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme against till=Trajectory
3	knock	past · perfect · passive	this till not said here	father			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination piece=Theme
4	beam			the roof			nom beam «communication 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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