The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 51
But instead of transforming himself into a different shape, he just hid himself in a corner of the bridge, where he could see without being seen.
Who acts: Tanuki · What happens: transform, hide, see · To what, where: Tanuki, different shape, corner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tanuki), 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 | _ | 13 hid | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 transforming | mark |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | transforming | transform | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hid | advcl |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 transforming | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 shape | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shape | det |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shape | amod |
| 9 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 transforming | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 transforming | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hid | nsubj |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 hid | advmod |
| 13 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 hid | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 corner | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 corner | det |
| 17 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hid | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 bridge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bridge | det |
| 20 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 corner | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 see | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bridge | conj |
| 26 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 28 seen | mark |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 seen | aux:pass |
| 28 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 see | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | gerund | Tanuki not said here | Tanuki | into a different shape result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into shape=Result | |||
| 2 | hide | past | Tanuki | Tanuki | a corner of the bridge | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location | |||
| 3 | see | could | Tanuki | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | gerund · passive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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