More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 8
He hid behind the door, and was as still as a mouse.
Who acts: He · What happens: hide, be · To what, where: door
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mouse | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mouse | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mouse | cop |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 still | advmod |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 mouse | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 mouse | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mouse | det |
| 13 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | He | the door | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind door=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | still | as a mouse | 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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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