The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 3
The girl took the net and worked so hard that soon there was not a hole to be found.
Who acts: girl, that · What happens: take, work, not be, find · To what, where: net, hole
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, that), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 net | det |
| 5 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 worked | cc |
| 7 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 hard | advmod |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 worked | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 hole | nsubj |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 was | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hole | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 hole | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hole | det |
| 16 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 worked | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 found | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 found | aux:pass |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hole | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the girl | the net | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | past | the girl not said here | hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | that | a hole | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive · passive | the girl not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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