The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 36

He could not clear it any more than his brothers had done, and at last the spade itself stuck in the earth so that he could not pull it out.

Who acts: man, brothers, spade, brother · What happens: not clear, do, stick, not pull out · To what, where: work, last

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 (man, brothers, spade, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2435:1897): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 clear	advmod
4	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clear	obj
6	any	any	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 clear	advmod
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brothers	nmod:poss
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 done	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 more	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stuck	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stuck	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stuck	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spade	det
18	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stuck	nsubj
19	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	18 spade	nmod:unmarked
20	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clear	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 earth	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 earth	det
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stuck	obl
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 pull	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pull	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 pull	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 pull	advmod
29	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 stuck	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pull	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	29 pull	compound:prt
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not clear	could	man	work			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source
2	do	past · perfect	man's brothers				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stick	past	the spade spade		last	in the earth	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme at last=Destination
4	not pull out	could	brother	work			tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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