The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 59

It shows much more skill to be able to catch a small thing that can hide itself in a moment behind a leaf.

Who acts: It, small thing · What happens: show, be, catch, hide · To what, where: more skill, small thing, skill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, small thing), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 skill	amod
5	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 able	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shows	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 catch	mark
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 catch	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hide	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hide	aux
16	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thing	acl:relcl
17	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 hide	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hide	obl
21	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 leaf	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 leaf	det
23	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 moment	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	more skill			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent skill=Recipient
2	is	to-infinitive				able property	tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive		a small thing			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	hide	can	a small thing	skill	moment		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=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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