--- title: The others had taken everything that was any good, so that he had a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The others had taken everything that was any good, so that he had a difficulty in scraping together four wheels of different sizes and fixing them to an old cart, and he could find no other horses than a pair of old hacks. Who acts: Hans, difficulty. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, difficulty), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:12:98 # text = The others had taken everything that was any good, so that he had a difficulty in scraping together four wheels of different sizes and fixing them to an old cart, and he could find no other horses than a pair of old hacks. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 4 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 14 mark _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 difficulty difficulty NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 in in SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 scraping scrape VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 together together ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 wheels wheel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 sizes size NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 fixing fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 38 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 40 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 hacks hack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | | the others | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme everything=Destination | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | Hans | a difficulty | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient | | 4 | **scrape together** | gerund | a difficulty *not said here* | four wheels of different sizes | | | | together *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient | | 5 | **fix** | gerund | a difficulty *not said here* | wheels *= wheel* | | | | to a old cart | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to cart=Co-Patient | | 6 | **find** | could | Hans | no other horses | | | | than a pair of old hacks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/99/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/12/)