The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 96
When you find this hollow dig it out; but it will be hard work, for the earth has been pressed down into it with care.
Who acts: you, hollow · What happens: find, dig out, be, press down · To what, where: this, hollow, hard work, earth
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hollow), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 find | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 find | obj |
| 5 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dig | amod |
| 6 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dig | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 dig | compound:prt |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 work | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 work | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 work | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 work | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 work | cop |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 work | amod |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pressed | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 pressed | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pressed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 pressed | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 pressed | aux:pass |
| 22 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 work | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 pressed | compound:prt |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pressed | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 care | case |
| 27 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pressed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | you | this | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dig out | present | you not said here | hollow | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | hollow | hard work | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | press down | present · perfect · passive | the earth | hollow | with care | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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