The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 241

‘Oh yes, I only put him into a hole,’ said he, ‘and raked a little earth over him; that’s all I have been able to do to-night, for it is fearful weather outside.

Who acts: I, father, all, earth · What happens: put, say, rake, be, do · To what, where: father, hole, little earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father, all, earth), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 put	discourse
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Oh	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 put	advmod
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 hole	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hole	det
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 raked	punct
17	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	19 raked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 raked	cc
19	raked	rake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 earth	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 earth	amod
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 raked	obj
23	over	over	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 raked	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 ’s	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 ’s	nsubj
27	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 able	nsubj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 able	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 able	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 able	cop
32	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ’s	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 night	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 to	punct
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 do	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 weather	punct
39	for	for	ADP	_	43 weather	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 weather	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 weather	cop
42	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 weather	amod
43	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 do	obl
44	outside	outside	ADV	_	43 weather	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present	I		father	a hole			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
2	say speech: assert	past	father						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	rake	past	father not said here	a little earth				over father	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent earth=Theme over he=Trajectory
4	is	present · perfect	all					able property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	all not said here				night		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	earth					for fearful weather; outside property	tree rules

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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