The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 38
'He dug a hole under the doorstep and placed it there,' said she.
Who acts: treasure, Sodno · What happens: dig, place, say · To what, where: hole, doorstep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treasure, Sodno), 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dug | nsubj |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hole | det |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dug | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 doorstep | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doorstep | det |
| 8 | doorstep | doorstep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hole | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 placed | cc |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 placed | obj |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 placed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | treasure | a hole | the doorstep | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme under doorstep=Location | |||
| 2 | place | past | treasure not said here | hole | there | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Sodno | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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