The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 67
The servant bowed low, and started at once for the fork, where he hid himself in the bushes.
Who acts: servant, mountain · What happens: bow, start, hide · To what, where: mountain, bushes
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, mountain), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bowed | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 started | cc |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | parataxis |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 started | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 fork | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fork | det |
| 12 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hid | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 hid | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hid | nsubj |
| 16 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 started | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 hid | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bushes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bushes | det |
| 20 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hid | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the servant | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | start | past | for the fork | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hide | past | mountain | mountain | the bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in bush=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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