The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 49
And this was very natural, as he had hidden himself in some long grass under a tree!
Who acts: this, hedgehog · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: hedgehog, long grass
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 (this, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 natural | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 natural | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 natural | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 natural | advmod |
| 5 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hidden | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 hidden | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hidden | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hidden | aux |
| 10 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 natural | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hidden | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 grass | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 grass | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grass | amod |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hidden | obl |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grass | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 natural | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | past · perfect | hedgehog | hedgehog | some long grass under a tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in grass=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: «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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