read file into list of lists

[antar2]

Hello,

I can not find out how to read a file into a list of lists. I know how
to split a text into a list

sentences = line.split(\n)

following text for example should be considered as a list of lists (3
columns and 3 rows), so that when I make the print statement list[0]
[0], that the word pear appears


pear noun singular
books nouns plural
table noun singular

Can someone help me?

Thanks