Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 178
The child crept away, and hid herself in the crowd.
Who acts: child · What happens: creep away, hide · To what, where: MIGNON, crowd
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hid | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hid | cc |
| 7 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | advcl |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 hid | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 crowd | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crowd | det |
| 11 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hid | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep away | past | the child | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | the child not said here | MIGNON | the crowd | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in crowd=Location |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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