The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 52
Then I came out of my hiding, took a little of her dung and conveyed it to the peris.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: come out, take, convey, hide · To what, where: hiding, little, dung, peris
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 hiding | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hiding | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hiding | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dung | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dung | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 little | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 conveyed | cc |
| 16 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 conveyed | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 peris | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 peris | det |
| 20 | peris | peris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 conveyed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | I | my hiding | then | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hiding=Result | |||
| 2 | take | past | I not said here | a little of cow's dung | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | ||||
| 3 | convey | past | I not said here | dung | the peris | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to peris=Recipient | |||
| 4 | hide | my | nom hiding «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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