The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 46

However, what she really did do was to have a great hole as deep as a well dug in her garden, and the top of it covered with a flat stone.

Who acts: great hole · What happens: have, dig, cover · To what, where: great hole, well, garden, top

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great 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	However	however	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
9	to	to	PART	_	10 have	mark
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hole	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hole	amod
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 deep	advmod
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hole	amod
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 well	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 well	det
18	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deep	obl
19	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 well	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 garden	nmod:poss
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dug	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 covered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 covered	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 top	det
26	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 covered	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 top	nmod
29	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 hole	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 stone	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stone	det
32	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stone	amod
33	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 covered	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	to-infinitive · do-support		a great hole		however property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
2	dig	participle		a well not said here	Princess's garden		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
3	cover	participle · passive	a great hole not said here	the top of garden		with a flat stone	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with stone=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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