The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 35

The dirt lay thicker than ever on the floor of the cave when the young man took the spade and began his work.

Who acts: dirt, young man, man · What happens: lie, take, begin, work · To what, where: floor, spade, work

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 (dirt, 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	2 dirt	det
2	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 lay	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 lay	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cave	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cave	det
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floor	nmod
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 took	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	nsubj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spade	det
19	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 work	nmod:poss
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 began	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the dirt		the floor of the cave	thick property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
2	take	past	the young man	the spade			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Theme
3	begin	past	the young man not said here	man's work			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	work		man				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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