The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 5
After the hunting party had started she hid Sigurd under her bed, and bade him be sure to lie there till she called him.
Who acts: stepmother, bade · What happens: start, hide, be, lie, call · To what, where: hunting party, Sigurd, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother, bade), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 started | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 party | det |
| 3 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 party | compound |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | aux |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hid | nsubj |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 9 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sure | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sure | cc |
| 15 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sure | nsubj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bade | obj |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sure | cop |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 started | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lie | mark |
| 20 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sure | xcomp |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 lie | advmod |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 called | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lie | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past · perfect · passive | the hunting party | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | hide | past | stepmother | Sigurd | stepmother's bed | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sigurd=Patient under bed=Location | |||
| 3 | is | infinitive | bade | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie | to-infinitive | bade not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | call | past | stepmother | Sigurd | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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