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title: However, what she really did do was to have a great hole as deep as… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, what she really did do was to have a great hole as deep as a well dug in her garden, and the top of it covered with a flat stone. Who acts: great hole. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 46

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However, what she really did do was to have a great hole as deep as a well dug in her garden, and the top of it covered with a flat stone.

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**Who acts:** great hole · **What happens:** have, dig, cover · **To what, where:** great hole, well, garden, top

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great hole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:25:46
# text = However, what she really did do was to have a great hole as deep as a well dug in her garden, and the top of it covered with a flat stone.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | to-infinitive · do-support |  | a great hole |  |  |  | however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |
| 2 | **dig** | participle |  | a well *not said here* |  | Princess's garden |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location |
| 3 | **cover** | participle · passive | a great hole *not said here* | the top of garden |  |  |  | with a flat stone | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with stone=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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