The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 71

Esben accordingly took his seat on it, but when she had got him to the mouth of the oven he spread his legs out wide, so that she could not get him pushed in.

Who acts: Esben, property · What happens: take, get, spread, not get, push in · To what, where: seat, property, legs

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, property), 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	3 took	nsubj
2	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 seat	nmod:poss
5	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 got	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	aux
13	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 took	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mouth	det
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 oven	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 oven	det
20	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mouth	nmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spread	nsubj
22	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 oven	acl:relcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 legs	nmod:poss
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 spread	obj
25	out	out	ADV	_	26 wide	advmod
26	wide	wide	ADV	_	22 spread	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	33 get	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 get	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 get	advmod
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 get	obj
35	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 get	xcomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	35 pushed	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Esben	property's seat	seat	accordingly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seat=Theme on it=Destination
2	get	past · perfect	Esben	property		to the mouth of the oven	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	spread	past	property	property's legs		wide property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme
4	not get	could	Esben	property			tree rules
5	push in	participle	property not said here				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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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