The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 111
Instead, there lay at his feet a large hole, big enough for two people to pass through.
Who acts: two people · What happens: lay, pass through · To what, where: large hole, feet
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two people), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instead | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | expl |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hole | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hole | amod |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 big | punct |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hole | amod |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 big | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 pass | mark |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 people | nummod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pass | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 pass | mark |
| 18 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 big | advcl |
| 19 | through | through | ADV | _ | 18 pass | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a large hole | king's feet; there | instead property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination | |||
| 2 | pass through | to-infinitive | two people | through property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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