The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 82

The man held up his foot so that they could see the sole of his shoe; it was worn as thin as paper, and there was a hole in the middle of it.

Who acts: man, men, hole · What happens: hold up, see, wear, be · To what, where: foot, sole

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, men, hole), 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 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	nsubj
3	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 held	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foot	nmod:poss
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 see	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 held	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sole	det
13	sole	sole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 shoe	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shoe	nmod:poss
16	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sole	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 worn	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 worn	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 worn	aux:pass
20	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 held	parataxis
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 thin	case
22	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 worn	obl
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 paper	case
24	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 worn	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 was	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 was	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 worn	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hole	det
30	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 middle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 middle	det
33	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hole	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 middle	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold up	past	the man	Niels's foot			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot foot=Theme
2	see	could	men = man	the sole of Niels's shoe			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sole=Stimulus
3	wear	past · passive		sole		as thin; as paper	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	be	past	a hole in the middle of sole		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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