The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 20
But when he had dug up the ground, what did he find?
Who acts: man · What happens: dig up, find · To what, where: ground
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 dug | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 dug | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dug | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dug | aux |
| 5 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 dug | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 find | obj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ground | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | past · perfect | man | the ground | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past · do-support | man | the ground | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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