The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 110

At length he saw a deep sort of hole or cave under a great rock, and as it seemed quite empty, he went in, and lay down in a corner.

Who acts: beggar, it · What happens: see, seem, go in, lay down, sort · To what, where: deep sort, length, corner, hole

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar, it), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sort	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sort	amod
7	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 hole	case
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sort	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 cave	cc
11	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hole	conj
12	under	under	ADP	_	15 rock	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rock	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 rock	amod
15	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hole	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seemed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 seemed	cc
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 seemed	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seemed	nsubj
20	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 empty	advmod
22	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seemed	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lay	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lay	cc
29	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saw	conj
30	down	down	ADV	_	29 lay	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 corner	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 corner	det
33	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	beggar	a deep sort of hole under a great rock or cave	length		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
2	seem	past	it			empty property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	go in	past	beggar				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lay down	infinitive	beggar not said here		a corner	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in corner=Destination
5	sort			hole under a great rock or cave			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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: «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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