The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 118

The hole was dark and deep, and if it had a bottom no one could see it.

Who acts: hole, one · What happens: be, have, see · To what, where: bottom

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 (hole, one), 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 hole	det
2	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 deep	cc
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dark	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bottom	det
13	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hole		dark property	tree rules
2	be		the hole not said here			tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	hole	a bottom		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient
4	see	could	no one	bottom		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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