The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 40
He pleased himself with these sights for a while, and then went back to the garden and hid himself from the gardeners and passed the night.
What happens: go back, hide, pass · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sights | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 sights | det |
| 6 | sights | sight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pleased | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 while | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 while | det |
| 9 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sights | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 went | advmod |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pleased | parataxis |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 garden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hid | cc |
| 19 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 hid | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 gardeners | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gardeners | det |
| 23 | gardeners | gardener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hid | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 passed | cc |
| 25 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | then | to the garden result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to garden=Result | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | water | from the gardeners | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Patient from gardener=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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