The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 167
The mole closed up the hole again which let in the light, and then escorted the ladies home.
Who acts: mole · What happens: close up, let, escort · To what, where: hole, light, ladies
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 (mole), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mole | det |
| 2 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | nsubj |
| 3 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mole | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 closed | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closed | obl |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 let | advmod |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 light | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 let | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 escorted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 escorted | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 escorted | advmod |
| 16 | escorted | escort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ladies | det |
| 18 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 escorted | obj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 escorted | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close up | participle | the mole not said here | the hole | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | past | the mole | the light | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | escort | past | the mole not said here | the ladies | then | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=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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