The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 91
When the door was shut on Maria, who had concealed the doll under her cloak, she hid herself under the couch, keeping fast hold of the string which was fastened to its head.
Who acts: Maria · What happens: shut, conceal, hide, keep, fasten, hold · To what, where: door, Maria, doll, cloak, couch, fast hold
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maria), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 shut | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shut | aux:pass |
| 5 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 Maria | case |
| 7 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shut | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 concealed | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 concealed | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 concealed | aux |
| 11 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Maria | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 doll | det |
| 13 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concealed | obj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 cloak | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concealed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hid | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hid | nsubj |
| 19 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shut | conj |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 hid | obj |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 couch | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 couch | det |
| 23 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 keeping | punct |
| 25 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 hid | advcl |
| 26 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hold | amod |
| 27 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keeping | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 string | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 string | det |
| 30 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hold | nmod |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 fastened | aux:pass |
| 33 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 string | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 head | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 head | nmod:poss |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 fastened | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past · passive | the door | Maria | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | conceal | past · perfect | Maria | the doll | Maria's cloak | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent doll=Patient under cloak=Location | |||
| 3 | hide | past | Maria | Maria | the couch | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient under couch=Location | |||
| 4 | keep | gerund | Maria not said here | fast hold of the string | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fasten | past · passive | the string | to string's head | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to head=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | hold | the string | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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