The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 60

But pull as hard as they might they could not drag him out of the hole, and at last they gave it up and left him, with his ear very much torn and scratched.

Who acts: beasts · What happens: pull, not drag, give up, leave, tear, scratch · To what, where: hare, hole, last

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beasts), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 pull	cc
2	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 pull	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 drag	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drag	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 drag	aux
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drag	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 drag	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 drag	advmod
11	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pull	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drag	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 hole	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hole	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hole	det
16	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drag	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gave	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gave	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pull	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 gave	compound:prt
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 left	cc
26	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gave	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 left	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ear	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 ear	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 ear	nmod:poss
31	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 left	obl
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADV	_	34 torn	advmod
34	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 left	advcl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 scratched	cc
36	scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 torn	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pull	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull	present					hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not drag	could	beasts = beast	hare		the hole		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out hole=Initial_Location
3	give up	past	beasts = beast	hole		last		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source
4	leave	past	beasts = beast not said here		hare		with hare's ear	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with ear=Theme
5	tear	participle	beasts = beast not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	scratch	participle	beasts = beast not said here					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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