The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 64

Next she lifted down a spade from a high shelf, where it had grown quite rusty, and dug a very small hole on the opposite side of the hut—very small, but very deep.

Who acts: hole, spade · What happens: lift down, grow, dig · To what, where: spade, high shelf, small hole, opposite side

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 (hole, spade), 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	Next	next	ADV	_	3 lifted	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lifted	nsubj
3	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 lifted	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spade	det
6	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 shelf	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shelf	det
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shelf	amod
10	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lifted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grown	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 grown	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grown	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grown	aux
15	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 lifted	conj
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 rusty	advmod
17	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grown	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dug	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dug	cc
20	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lifted	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 hole	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 small	advmod
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hole	amod
24	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dug	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 side	det
27	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 side	amod
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dug	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 hut	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hut	det
31	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	34 small	punct
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 small	advmod
34	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hut	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 deep	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 deep	cc
37	very	very	ADV	_	38 deep	advmod
38	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lifted	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift down	past	hole	a spade	a high shelf	next property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spade=Theme from shelf=Destination
2	grow	past · perfect	spade			rusty property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dig	past	hole not said here	a small hole	the opposite side of the hut		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme on side=Location

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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