Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 29

“They are hiding behind the holly.”

Who acts: daughters · What happens: hide · To what, where: holly

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 hiding	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hiding	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hiding	aux
4	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 holly	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 holly	det
7	holly	holly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hiding	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hiding	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hiding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide in a quote	present · progressive	daughters = daughter			the holly			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind holly=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: «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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