The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 30

Deeper and deeper he dug, till far down, below the roots of brass, his knife struck upon the buried treasure, which lay heaped up in bags all around.

Who acts: man, knife · What happens: dig, strike, bury, lie, heap up · To what, where: roots, buried treasure, bags

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, knife), 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	Deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 deeper	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	1 Deeper	cc
3	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 dug	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dug	nsubj
5	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 down	punct
7	till	till	ADV	_	9 down	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 down	advmod
9	down	down	ADV	_	5 dug	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 roots	punct
11	below	below	ADP	_	13 roots	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roots	det
13	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dug	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 brass	case
15	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roots	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 struck	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 knife	nmod:poss
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 struck	nsubj
19	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dug	conj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 treasure	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 treasure	det
22	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 treasure	amod
23	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 struck	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lay	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 lay	nsubj
26	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 struck	conj
27	heaped	heap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 lay	xcomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 heaped	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 bags	case
30	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lay	obl
31	all	all	ADV	_	32 around	advmod
32	around	around	ADV	_	26 lay	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dig	past	man	the roots of brass		deep, down property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme
2	strike	past	man's knife		the buried treasure		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon treasure=Location
3	bury	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	lie	past			bags	around property	tree rules
5	heap up	participle					vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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