The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 10
Somewhere about him he has hidden a stone, on which are engraved strange signs.
Who acts: ogre · What happens: hide, engrave · To what, where: stone, strange signs
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre), 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 | Somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 hidden | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Somewhere | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hidden | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hidden | aux |
| 6 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hidden | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 engraved | punct |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 engraved | obl |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 engraved | aux:pass |
| 13 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hidden | conj |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 signs | amod |
| 15 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 engraved | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present · perfect | ogre | a stone | somewhere property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | |||
| 2 | engrave | present · passive | ogre not said here | strange signs | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: sign=Theme on which=Destination |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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