More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 122
Johnny hid himself in the hollow of a tree, thinking only of his own safety.
Who acts: Johnny · What happens: hide, think · To what, where: Johnny, hollow
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Johnny), 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 | Johnny | Johnny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 hid | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hollow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hollow | det |
| 6 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hollow | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 hid | advcl |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 safety | advmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 safety | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 safety | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 safety | amod |
| 16 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thinking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Johnny | Johnny | the hollow of a tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in hollow=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | Johnny not said here | of Johnny's own safety | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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