The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 11
But the rabbit had grown as cunning as he, and standing in a corner hid the meat behind him, so that the baboon could not find it.
Who acts: standing, baboon · What happens: grow, stand, hide, not find · To what, where: rabbit, corner, meat
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (standing, baboon), 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 | _ | 5 grown | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rabbit | det |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grown | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 cunning | case |
| 7 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grown | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 he | case |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cunning | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hid | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hid | cc |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 hid | csubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 corner | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 corner | det |
| 15 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 16 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 meat | det |
| 18 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hid | obj |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 find | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 baboon | det |
| 25 | baboon | baboon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 find | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 find | advmod |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hid | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 find | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect · passive | the rabbit | as cunning as Gudu | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | |||||
| 3 | hide | past | standing | the meat | behind Gudu | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Patient behind he=Location | |||
| 4 | not find | could | the baboon | rabbit | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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