More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 3

But the more it pressed, the deeper dug the spear-heads into its sides.

Who acts: Worm, deeper · What happens: press, dig · To what, where: spear heads

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Worm, deeper), 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	_	5 pressed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 more	det
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 pressed	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pressed	nsubj
5	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dug	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 deeper	det
8	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 dug	nsubj
9	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pressed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heads	det
11	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heads	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 spear	punct
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dug	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 sides	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sides	nmod:poss
16	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dug	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	Worm						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	dig	past	the deeper	the spear heads				into Worm's sides	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Instrument into side=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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