The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 110

But he had hidden in a dark corner and was laughing to himself all the time.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: hide, laugh · To what, where: dark corner, shepherd

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 hidden	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hidden	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hidden	aux
4	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 corner	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 corner	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 corner	amod
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hidden	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laughing	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laughing	aux
11	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 hidden	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 laughing	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laughing	obl:unmarked
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hidden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · perfect	shepherd			a dark corner			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
2	laugh	past · progressive	shepherd not said here		shepherd		time		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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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