The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 27

So, making himself very small and thin, he hid himself behind a pile of buffalo skins in the corner, first tearing a slit through one of them, so that he could see what was going on.

Who acts: door · What happens: make, hide, tear, see, go on · To what, where: door, pile, slit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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	So	so	ADV	_	11 hid	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hid	advcl
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 making	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 making	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thin	cc
8	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 small	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 making	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hid	nsubj
11	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 hid	obj
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 pile	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pile	det
15	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hid	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 skins	case
17	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skins	compound
18	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pile	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 corner	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 corner	det
21	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 skins	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tearing	punct
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 tearing	advmod
24	tearing	tear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hid	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 slit	det
26	slit	slit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tearing	obj
27	through	through	ADP	_	28 one	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 tearing	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 one	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 see	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 see	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 see	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 see	aux
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tearing	advcl
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 going	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 going	aux
39	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 see	ccomp
40	on	on	ADP	_	39 going	compound:prt
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	door not said here	door		small property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
2	hide	past	door	door	a pile of buffalo skins in the corner		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind pile=Location
3	tear	gerund	door not said here	a slit		through one of skins; first property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location slit=Theme
4	see	could	door				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go on	past · progressive					vn function-105.2.1 «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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