The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 95

One evening it had carried him to the top of a high mountain, where he saw a man with a bald head, busily engaged in digging up spadefuls of earth and throwing them in a basket.

Who acts: present · What happens: carry, see, engage, dig up, throw · To what, where: One evening, man, spadefuls, basket

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj:pass
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	aux
5	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 mountain	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mountain	det
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mountain	amod
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 top	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 saw	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carried	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 head	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 head	det
22	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 head	amod
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 man	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 engaged	punct
25	busily	busily	ADV	_	26 engaged	advmod
26	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 saw	conj
27	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 digging	mark
28	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 engaged	advcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 digging	compound:prt
30	spadefuls	spadeful	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 digging	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 earth	case
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spadefuls	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 throwing	cc
34	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 digging	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 throwing	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 basket	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 basket	det
38	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 throwing	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past · perfect · passive		One evening		to the top of a high mountain	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Value
2	see	past	present	a man		with a bald head	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
3	engage	participle	present not said here			busily property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	dig up	gerund	present not said here	spadefuls of earth			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spadeful=Theme
5	throw	gerund	present not said here	spadefuls = spadeful	a basket		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme in basket=Destination

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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