The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 86
Then the crab dug itself a deep hole in the ground, so that not even the tip of her claws might be seen.
Who acts: crab · What happens: dig, see · To what, where: bucket, tip
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dug | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crab | det |
| 3 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dug | nsubj |
| 4 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 dug | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hole | det |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hole | amod |
| 8 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dug | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hole | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 24 seen | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 seen | mark |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 tip | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 tip | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tip | det |
| 18 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 claws | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 claws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tip | nmod |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dug | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | the crab | bucket | then | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary hole=Result | |||
| 2 | see | might · passive | the tip of egg's claws | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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