The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 37

But the hedgehog, who sometimes showed more cunning than anyone would have guessed, answered:

Who acts: hedgehog · What happens: show, guess, answer · To what, where: cunning, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hedgehog), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hedgehog	det
3	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 showed	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 showed	nsubj
6	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 showed	advmod
7	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hedgehog	acl:relcl
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 cunning	advmod
9	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 showed	obj
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 guessed	mark
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 guessed	nsubj:pass
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 guessed	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 guessed	aux
14	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 showed	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 guessed	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	past	the hedgehog	cunning	sometimes property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cunning=Recipient clause=Topic
2	guess	would · perfect · passive		anyone		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	the hedgehog			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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