The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 159

With that he drove a spike into a beam, and ran his head against it, and in consequence had to lie in bed for a long time afterwards.

Who acts: man · What happens: drive, run, have, lie · To what, where: spike, beam, head, consequence, bed

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 (man), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 drove	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spike	det
6	spike	spike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 beam	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beam	det
9	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ran	obj
15	against	against	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ran	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 consequence	case
20	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 lie	mark
23	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 bed	case
25	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lie	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 time	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 time	det
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 time	amod
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lie	obl
30	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	23 lie	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	man	a spike	a beam		with that	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spike=Theme into beam=Trajectory
2	run	past	man not said here	man's head	head			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme against it=Trajectory
3	have	past	man not said here		consequence			tree rules
4	lie	to-infinitive	man not said here		bed	time	afterwards property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=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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