The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 123

'Oh, I hid them safely till the farm people should have forgotten all about them,' replied the jackal. '

Who acts: I, farm people · What happens: hide, forget, reply · To what, where: jars, jackal

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, farm people), 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	_	5 hid	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 hid	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hid	obj
7	safely	safely	ADV	_	5 hid	advmod
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 forgotten	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
10	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 people	compound
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 forgotten	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 forgotten	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 forgotten	aux
14	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 hid	advcl
15	all	all	ADV	_	17 them	advmod
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 forgotten	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 replied	punct
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 replied	punct
20	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 forgotten	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 jackal	det
22	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 replied	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hid	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide	past	I	jars = jar	safely property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	forget	should · perfect	the farm people		about jars = jar	tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	past		the jackal		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jackal=Topic

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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