Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 124

Almost as soon as he could walk about he began scraping at the mud wall of their dungeon, and in an incredibly short space of time had made a hole big enough for him to crawl through.

Who acts: boy · What happens: walk, begin, scrape, make, crawl · To what, where: hole, short space

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 as	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 walk	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 walk	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walk	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 walk	aux
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 began	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walk	advcl
11	scraping	scrape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 began	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 wall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wall	det
14	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wall	compound
15	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scraping	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 dungeon	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 dungeon	nmod:poss
18	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wall	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 space	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 space	det
23	incredibly	incredibly	ADV	_	24 short	advmod
24	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 space	amod
25	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 time	case
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 space	nmod
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 walk	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hole	det
31	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
32	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hole	amod
33	enough	enough	ADV	_	32 big	advmod
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 crawl	mark
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 crawl	nsubj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 crawl	mark
37	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 big	advcl
38	through	through	ADV	_	37 crawl	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	could	boy			soon property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	boy				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	scrape	gerund	boy not said here			at the mud wall of slaves's dungeon	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wall=Patient
4	make	past · perfect	boy not said here	a hole	a short space of time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product
5	crawl	to-infinitive	boy			through property	vn run-51.3.2 «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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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