The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 84

Still, in spite of his resolutions, he could not hide altogether that something had happened, and when he went in to breakfast his mother asked him what was the matter.

Who acts: Boy, something, mother · What happens: not hide, happen, go in, ask, be, spite · To what, where: spite, Boy, matter, resolutions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, something, mother), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	12 hide	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 spite	case
4	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hide	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 resolutions	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 resolutions	nmod:poss
7	resolutions	resolution	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spite	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spite	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hide	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hide	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hide	advmod
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	12 hide	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 happened	mark
15	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 happened	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	aux
17	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 hide	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 went	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happened	parataxis
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 breakfast	case
25	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	obl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	nsubj
28	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 went	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 asked	iobj
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 matter	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 matter	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 matter	det
33	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 asked	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hide	could	Boy			spite of Boy's resolutions	still	altogether property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spite=Location
2	happen	past · perfect	something						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go in	past	Boy						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	Boy's mother		Boy			to breakfast	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is a	past		the matter					tree rules
6	spite			Boy's resolutions					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	resolve		Boy						nom resolution «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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