The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 1

The young man took the spade, and began to clean the floor of the cave, but try as he would to move it the dirt still stuck to its place.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: take, begin, clean, try, move · To what, where: spade, floor

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spade	det
6	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 clean	mark
11	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clean	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cave	det
16	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 floor	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 try	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 try	cc
19	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 move	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 move	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 move	aux
23	to	to	PART	_	24 move	mark
24	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 try	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 move	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dirt	det
27	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 move	obj
28	still	still	ADV	_	29 stuck	advmod
29	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dirt	amod
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 place	nmod:poss
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stuck	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	past	the young man	the spade	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Theme
2	begin	past	the young man not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	clean	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	the floor of the cave	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent floor=Patient
4	try	present			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	move not said to happen	would	man	floor	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme dirt=Result

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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