The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 154

When they came to the place where the dead bird lay, the mole put his broad nose against the ceiling and pushed a hole through, so that the daylight could shine down.

Who acts: pieces, mole, daylight · What happens: come, put, push, shine down · To what, where: place, broad nose, ceiling, hole

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, mole, daylight), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 bird	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nmod
11	lay	lay	PUNCT	_	10 bird	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mole	det
14	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 nose	nmod:poss
17	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nose	amod
18	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
19	against	against	ADP	_	21 ceiling	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ceiling	det
21	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pushed	cc
23	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 put	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hole	det
25	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pushed	obj
26	through	through	ADV	_	23 pushed	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 shine	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 shine	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 daylight	det
31	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shine	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 shine	aux
33	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 pushed	parataxis
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 shine	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	pieces = piece		the place the dead bird		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	put	past	the mole	mole's broad nose	the ceiling		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme against ceiling=Destination
3	push	past	the mole not said here	a hole		through property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
4	shine down	could	the daylight				vn light_emission-43.1 «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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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