The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 50

After scratching and scraping all day and all night, they presently made a hole through which they could, with great difficulty, push a very slender needle, and out of this the Princess looked at the daylight for the first time.

Who acts: King, Princess · What happens: scratch, scrape, make, push, look · To what, where: hole, slender needle

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Princess), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 scratching	mark
2	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 made	advcl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 scraping	cc
4	scraping	scrape	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 scratching	conj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scraping	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 night	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 day	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 scratching	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	presently	presently	ADV	_	13 made	advmod
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hole	det
15	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	through	through	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 could	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 could	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 hole	aux
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 difficulty	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 difficulty	case
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 difficulty	amod
23	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 push	punct
25	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 difficulty	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 needle	det
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 slender	advmod
28	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 needle	amod
29	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 push	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 looked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 looked	cc
32	out	out	ADP	_	34 this	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 this	case
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 looked	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Princess	det
36	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 looked	nsubj
37	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	conj
38	at	at	ADP	_	40 daylight	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 daylight	det
40	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 looked	obl
41	for	for	ADP	_	44 time	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 time	det
43	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	44 time	amod
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 looked	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	gerund	King not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scrape	gerund	King not said here		day		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	make	past	King	a hole		with great difficulty; presently property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
4	push	infinitive		a slender needle			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme
5	look	past	the Princess		time	at the daylight; out this	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out this=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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