The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 34

So he at once began to explore the pit and found it ran back a long way underground.

Who acts: Hassebu, pit · What happens: begin, explore, find, run back · To what, where: pit, long way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hassebu, pit), 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	_	5 began	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 began	obl
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 explore	mark
7	explore	explore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pit	det
9	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 explore	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ran	nsubj
13	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	ccomp
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 ran	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ran	obl:unmarked
18	underground	underground	ADV	_	17 way	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	begin	past	Hassebu		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	explore	to-infinitive	Hassebu not said here	the pit	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent pit=Location
3	find	past	Hassebu not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	run back	past	pit	a long way	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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