The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 74
I am not surprised that he has kept her for fifteen years hidden away from the eyes of the world.
Who acts: I · What happens: not be, keep, hide away · To what, where: king, fifteen years, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 surprised | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 surprised | advmod |
| 4 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 kept | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kept | aux |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 surprised | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kept | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 11 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kept | obl |
| 13 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 years | acl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 hidden | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eyes | det |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hidden | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eyes | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | present · perfect · passive | king | year | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme she=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | hide away | participle | fifteen years not said here | the eyes of the world | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from eye=Beneficiary |
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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