The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 43
And pushing aside a rock, he saw a deep hole, so deep that he could not see to the bottom.
Who acts: noise · What happens: push, see, not see · To what, where: rock, deep hole
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 2 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | advcl |
| 3 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 5 rock | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rock | det |
| 5 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pushing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pushing | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hole | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hole | amod |
| 11 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deep | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 deep | advmod |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 see | advmod |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 deep | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 bottom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bottom | det |
| 22 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | gerund | noise not said here | a rock | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | noise | a deep hole | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not see | could | noise | to the bottom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/43/