The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 91

It was working round and round in its hole all by itself, and if anyone except the boy had tried to catch hold of it, he would have been badly cut.

Who acts: dream, anyone · What happens: work, try, catch, cut, hold · To what, where: hold, Boy, dream

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dream, anyone), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 working	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 working	aux
3	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	round	round	ADV	_	3 working	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 round	cc
6	round	round	ADV	_	4 round	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hole	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hole	nmod:poss
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 working	obl
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 itself	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 itself	case
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	9 hole	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tried	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 tried	mark
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 tried	nsubj
17	except	except	ADP	_	19 boy	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 anyone	nmod
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tried	aux
21	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 working	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 catch	mark
23	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tried	xcomp
24	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 catch	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hold	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cut	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 cut	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 cut	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 cut	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 cut	aux:pass
32	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 cut	advmod
33	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 tried	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 working	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	past · progressive	dream		in dream's hole by dream; round property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hole=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	anyone			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	anyone not said here	hold of dream		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	cut	would · perfect · passive		Boy	badly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	hold			dream		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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