The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 35
Once outside, he hid himself in a ditch till it grew dusk, and then galloped away into the forest.
Who acts: tanaki, ditch · What happens: hide, grow, gallop away · To what, where: tanaki, ditch, forest
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 (tanaki, ditch), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 outside | advmod |
| 2 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 5 hid | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 outside | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hid | nsubj |
| 5 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 hid | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ditch | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ditch | det |
| 9 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hid | obl |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 grew | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hid | advcl |
| 13 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 galloped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 galloped | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 galloped | advmod |
| 17 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hid | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 galloped | advmod |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 galloped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | tanaki | tanaki | a ditch | outside property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in ditch=Location | ||
| 2 | grow | past | ditch | dusk | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gallop away | past | tanaki not said here | the forest | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination |
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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