The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 69

‘Well, we must begin by digging a hole.’

Who acts: we · What happens: begin, dig · To what, where: hole

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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	_	6 begin	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 begin	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 begin	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 begin	aux
6	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 digging	mark
8	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 begin	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hole	det
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 digging	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 begin	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	must	we						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	dig	gerund	we not said here	a hole					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=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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