The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 9
So he dug and dug, and at last he came on a little pot full of gold and silver.
Who acts: back · What happens: dig, come · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dug | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dug | nsubj |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dug | cc |
| 5 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 came | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 pot | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pot | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pot | amod |
| 15 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pot | amod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 silver | cc |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gold | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | back | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | dig | past | back not said here | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | back | last | on a little pot | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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