The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 16
Only three creatures remained alive, and they had hidden themselves in the thickest part of the forest, high up the mountain.
Who acts: three creatures · What happens: remain, hide · To what, where: three creatures, creatures, thickest part
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three creatures), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 creatures | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 creatures | nummod |
| 3 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 creatures | acl |
| 5 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 remained | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hidden | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hidden | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hidden | aux |
| 10 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 creatures | acl |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hidden | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 part | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 14 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hidden | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 high | punct |
| 20 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 forest | amod |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 mountain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 high | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creatures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | three creatures not said here | alive property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | past · perfect · passive | three creatures not said here | creatures = creature | the thickest part of the forest | tree rules |
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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