The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 37

Then he pressed on eagerly, and soon came to the little hollow in the wood; down he went, burrowing like a mole into the earth; the magic root did its work, and at last the treasure lay before his eyes.

Who acts: Peter, magic root, last, root · What happens: press, come, go, burrow, do, lie · To what, where: little hollow, earth, work, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, magic root, last, root), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 pressed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pressed	nsubj
3	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 eagerly	case
5	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	3 pressed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 hollow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hollow	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hollow	amod
13	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hollow	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
18	down	down	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 burrowing	punct
22	burrowing	burrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 went	advcl
23	like	like	ADP	_	25 mole	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 mole	det
25	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burrowing	obl
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 earth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 earth	det
28	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burrowing	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 did	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 root	det
31	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 root	amod
32	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 did	nsubj
33	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 work	nmod:poss
35	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 did	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 lay	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 lay	cc
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 last	case
39	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 lay	nsubj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 treasure	det
41	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 last	nsubj
42	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pressed	conj
43	before	before	ADP	_	45 eyes	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 eyes	nmod:poss
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 lay	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	Peter			then		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on eagerly=Theme
2	come	past	Peter not said here		the little hollow		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hollow=Initial_Location
3	go	past	Peter				down property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burrow	gerund	Peter not said here		the earth		like a mole	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into earth=Location
5	do	past	the magic root	root's work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
6	lie	past	last		Peter's eyes			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before eye=Location
7	work		root					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 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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