The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 3
“The best place is for you both to hide in the big oven, and when the soldiers have gone by I will let you out.”
Who acts: best place, you, soldiers, fox · What happens: be, hide, go, let out · To what, where: big oven, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best place, you, soldiers, fox), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hide | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 place | amod |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 you | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 you | cop |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 hide | nsubj |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hide | mark |
| 10 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 oven | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 oven | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 oven | amod |
| 14 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hide | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gone | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gone | cc |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 gone | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soldiers | det |
| 19 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gone | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | aux |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 hide | parataxis |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 let | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 let | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 let | aux |
| 25 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 gone | advcl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 let | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 let | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hide | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the best place | for you; both nmod:unmarked | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide in a quote | to-infinitive | you | the big oven | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in oven=Location | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · perfect | the soldiers | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | let out in a quote | future | the fox = fox | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: «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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