The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 37
The nobles, courtiers and counsellors said nothing, but tried to hide behind each other.
Who acts: nobles · What happens: say, try, hide · To what, where: nothing, each · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobles), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nobles | det |
| 2 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 courtiers | punct |
| 4 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nobles | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 counsellors | cc |
| 6 | counsellors | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nobles | conj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tried | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 tried | cc |
| 11 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hide | mark |
| 13 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tried | xcomp |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 each | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 13 hide | obl |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 each | fixed |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the nobles and courtiers and counsellors | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the nobles and courtiers and counsellors not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | the nobles and courtiers and counsellors not said here | each | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind each=Location |
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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