More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 123
Feeling himself safe, he peeped out of his hiding-place, and watched the two at work.
Who acts: Johnny · What happens: feel, peep out, watch · To what, where: Johnny, hiding place, two, work
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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 peeped | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Feeling | obj |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feeling | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 peeped | nsubj |
| 6 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 place | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hiding | punct |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peeped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 watched | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 watched | cc |
| 15 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 peeped | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 two | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 watched | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 work | case |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 watched | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | Johnny not said here | Johnny | safe property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | peep out | past | Johnny | Johnny's hiding place | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | past | Johnny not said here | the two | work | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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: «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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