The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 40

Then his heart felt glad, and he took out his knife and dug and dug, till the little hole became a big one, and he could wriggle himself through.

Who acts: heart, little hole, scorpion · What happens: feel, take out, become, wriggle · To what, where: knife, big one, scorpion

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 (heart, little hole, scorpion), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 felt	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 heart	nmod:poss
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 felt	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 took	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	nsubj
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 felt	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 took	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 knife	nmod:poss
12	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dug	cc
14	dug	dug	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knife	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dug	cc
16	dug	dug	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knife	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 became	punct
18	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 became	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hole	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hole	amod
21	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	nsubj
22	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 one	det
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 one	amod
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 became	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wriggle	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 wriggle	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wriggle	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 wriggle	aux
30	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 felt	conj
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 wriggle	obj
32	through	through	ADV	_	30 wriggle	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	scorpion's heart		then	glad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	take out	past	heart	scorpion's knife and dug and dug			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
3	become	past	the little hole	a big one			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	wriggle	could	scorpion	scorpion		through property	tree rules

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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