The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 77

The prince was not a little surprised, but he consented to hide himself with Asmund behind the panelling of the room, from where they could see all that went on through a little slit.

Who acts: prince, Ring, that · What happens: not be, consent, hide, see, go on · To what, where: Ring, panelling, little slit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, Ring, that), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 surprised	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 surprised	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 surprised	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 surprised	obl:unmarked
7	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 consented	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 consented	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 consented	nsubj
11	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 surprised	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hide	mark
13	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 consented	xcomp
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 hide	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 Asmund	case
16	Asmund	Asmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hide	obl
17	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 panelling	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 panelling	det
19	panelling	panelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hide	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 room	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 room	det
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 panelling	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
24	from	from	SCONJ	_	28 see	mark
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 see	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hide	conj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 went	det:predet
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 see	ccomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	31 went	compound:prt
33	through	through	ADP	_	36 slit	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 slit	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 slit	amod
36	slit	slit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the prince			a little obl:unmarked; surprised property	tree rules
2	consent	past	Ring				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	hide	to-infinitive	Ring not said here	Ring	the panelling of the room	with Asmund	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind panelling=Location
4	see	could	prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go on	past	that		a little slit		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through slit=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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