The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 85

Esben got his sack of malt; then he took his little white stick, set himself upon it, and said,

Who acts: Esben, Sir · What happens: get, take, set, say · To what, where: sack, little white stick, Sir · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, Sir), 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	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sack	nmod:poss
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 malt	case
6	malt	malt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sack	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 took	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stick	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stick	amod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stick	amod
14	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
16	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 took	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 set	obj
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 set	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	get	past	Esben	Sir's sack of malt			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sack=Stimulus
2	take	past	Sir	Sir's little white stick		then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	set	infinitive	Sir not said here	Sir	sack		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon it=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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