The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 22
And they dug, and found a large pit like a well, filled with honey up to the brim.
Who acts: neighbours · What happens: dig, find, fill · To what, where: large pit
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbours), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dug | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dug | nsubj |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pit | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pit | amod |
| 9 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 well | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 well | det |
| 12 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pit | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filled | punct |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 found | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 honey | case |
| 16 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 brim | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 brim | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brim | det |
| 20 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | neighbours = neighbour | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | neighbours = neighbour not said here | a large pit | like a well | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Topic | |||
| 3 | fill | participle | neighbours = neighbour not said here | with honey; to the brim | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with honey=Instrument |
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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