The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 56

I struggled to get out, but only fell in further; so I ran to the house, seized a spade, dug myself out, and took home the holy water.

Who acts: I · What happens: struggle, get out, fall, run, seize, dig out · To what, where: spade, myself, holy water

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 struggled	nsubj
2	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 struggled	xcomp
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 fell	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struggled	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 further	case
11	further	further	ADV	_	9 fell	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 ran	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struggled	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ran	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seized	punct
20	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ran	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 spade	det
22	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seized	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dug	punct
24	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seized	conj
25	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 dug	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	24 dug	compound:prt
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 took	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 took	cc
29	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 struggled	conj
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 took	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 water	det
32	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 water	amod
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 took	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	struggle	past	I			tree rules
2	get out	to-infinitive	I not said here		out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	I not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in further=Location
4	run	past	I		to the house result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result
5	seize	past	I not said here	a spade		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Theme
6	dig out	past	I not said here	myself		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
7	take	past	I not said here	the holy water	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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 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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