The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 61

And as she spoke, she pulled up one of the poles of the hut, and Ball-Carrier saw that underneath was a deep, deep hole, which seemed to have no bottom.

Who acts: grandmother, Ball, deep deep hole · What happens: speak, pull up, see, be, seem, have · To what, where: one, deep deep hole, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, Ball, deep deep hole), 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	_	7 pulled	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 spoke	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pulled	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pulled	nsubj
7	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pulled	compound:prt
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pulled	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 poles	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poles	det
12	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 hut	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hut	det
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poles	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
18	Ball	Ball	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 saw	nsubj
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Carrier	punct
20	Carrier	Carrier	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Ball	conj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pulled	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 hole	mark
23	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	29 hole	advmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hole	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hole	det
26	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hole	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 deep	punct
28	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hole	amod
29	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 saw	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 seemed	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 seemed	nsubj
32	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hole	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 have	mark
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 seemed	xcomp
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 bottom	det
36	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	grandmother			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pull up	past	grandmother	one of the poles of the hut		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	see	past	Ball and Carrier			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past		a deep deep hole	underneath property	tree rules
5	seem	past	a deep deep hole			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	have	to-infinitive	a deep deep hole not said here	no bottom		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient

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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