The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 2

And as he spoke he began tearing up the earth so fast that soon a deep pit was ready, deep enough to hold him.

Who acts: he, deep pit · What happens: speak, begin, tear up, be, hold · To what, where: earth, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, deep pit), 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	_	6 began	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 spoke	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 began	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 tearing	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tearing	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 tearing	advmod
13	that	that	ADV	_	19 ready	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 ready	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pit	det
16	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pit	amod
17	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ready	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ready	cop
19	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tearing	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 deep	punct
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ready	conj
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 deep	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 hold	mark
24	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 deep	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hold	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	he			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	he			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tear up	gerund	he not said here	the earth	fast property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location earth=Theme
4	is	past	a deep pit		ready, soon, that property	tree rules
5	be		a deep pit not said here		enough property	tree rules
6	hold	to-infinitive	a deep pit not said here	him = he		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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