The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 20

So the next night, as soon as it was dark, Tiidu stepped softly on deck, and was hidden by his friend down in the hold in a corner between two casks.

Who acts: captain, Tiidu, friend · What happens: be, step, hide down · To what, where: deck, hold

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, Tiidu, friend), 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	So	so	ADV	_	14 stepped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stepped	obl:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soon	punct
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 night	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 dark	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dark	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dark	cop
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 soon	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 night	punct
13	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stepped	nsubj
14	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	softly	softly	ADV	_	14 stepped	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 deck	case
17	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stepped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hidden	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hidden	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hidden	aux:pass
21	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stepped	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 friend	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 friend	nmod:poss
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hidden	obl
25	down	down	ADP	_	21 hidden	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hold	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hold	det
28	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hidden	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 corner	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 corner	det
31	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hold	nmod
32	between	between	ADP	_	34 casks	case
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 casks	nummod
34	casks	cask	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 corner	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	captain			dark property	tree rules
2	step	past	Tiidu	deck	night	softly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=Trajectory
3	hide down	past · passive	Tiidu's friend	the hold in a corner between two casks			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hold=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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