The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 36

The Bad One made a sign to the woman, who inquired where he had hidden them.

Who acts: Bad One, woman, ball · What happens: make, inquire, hide · To what, where: sign, gold · 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 (Bad One, woman, ball), 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	3 One	det
2	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 One	amod
3	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sign	det
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 woman	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 inquired	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 inquired	nsubj
12	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	acl:relcl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 hidden	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hidden	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 hidden	aux
16	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 inquired	ccomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hidden	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the Bad One	a sign	to the woman	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product
2	inquire speech: other	past	the woman			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hide	past · perfect	ball	gold		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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