The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 29
When the water-nymphs, who were hiding in readiness, had caught her and dragged her out of the sight of her terrified maidens, she herself had not had time to be frightened.
Who acts: water nymphs, princess · What happens: hide, catch, drag, not have, frighten, sight · To what, where: readiness, princess, sight, terrified maidens
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water nymphs, princess), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 hiding | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nymphs | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nymphs | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 water | punct |
| 5 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hiding | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hiding | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hiding | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hiding | aux |
| 9 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 caught | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 readiness | case |
| 11 | readiness | readiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hiding | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hiding | punct |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 caught | aux |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 caught | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dragged | cc |
| 17 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 caught | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dragged | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 sight | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sight | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sight | det |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dragged | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 maidens | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 maidens | nmod:poss |
| 25 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 maidens | amod |
| 26 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sight | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 29 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 she | conj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 had | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 had | advmod |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 caught | parataxis |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 had | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 frightened | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 frightened | aux:pass |
| 36 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 time | acl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · progressive | the water nymphs | readiness | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in readiness=Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past · perfect | princess | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | drag | past | princess | the sight of princess's terrified maidens | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out sight=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | not have | past · perfect | princess | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | frighten | to-infinitive · passive | princess not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 6 | sight | princess's terrified maidens | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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