The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 91

He managed to loosen one stone with his tusks, and, having made a beginning, stone after stone was poked out till he had made quite a large hole, big enough to let a man go through.

Who acts: boar, man · What happens: manage, loosen, make, poke out, let, go through · To what, where: one stone, beginning, large hole, man

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boar, man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 managed	nsubj
2	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 loosen	mark
4	loosen	loosen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 managed	xcomp
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 stone	nummod
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 loosen	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 tusks	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tusks	nmod:poss
9	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 loosen	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 and	punct
13	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 made	aux
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 managed	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 beginning	det
16	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stone	punct
18	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 beginning	conj
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 stone	case
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 poked	obl
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 poked	aux:pass
22	poked	poke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 made	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 poked	compound:prt
24	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 made	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 poked	advcl
28	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	31 hole	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hole	det
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hole	amod
31	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 big	punct
33	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hole	amod
34	enough	enough	ADV	_	33 big	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 let	mark
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 big	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 man	det
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 let	obj
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
40	through	through	ADV	_	39 go	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	manage	past	boar				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	loosen	to-infinitive	boar not said here	one stone		with boar's tusks	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stone=Patient with tusk=Instrument
3	make	gerund · perfect		a beginning and stone			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beginning=Product
4	poke out	past · passive			after stone		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»
5	make	past · perfect	boar	quite large hole			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product
6	let	to-infinitive	boar not said here	a man			tree rules
7	go through	infinitive	a man not said here			through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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