Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 40
One can hide a baby, but you cannot hide a boy.
Who acts: One, you · What happens: hide, not hide · To what, where: baby, boy
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, you), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hide | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hide | aux |
| 3 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hide | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hide | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hide | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 hide | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hide | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hide | advmod |
| 11 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hide | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hide | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | can | One | a baby | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not hide | can | you | a boy | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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