The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 11

“They must get food from somewhere,” he thought, and one morning, when he pretended to be going out to hunt, he hid in a thicket to watch.

Who acts: corner, man · What happens: get, think, pretend, go out, hunt, hide · To what, where: food, thicket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corner, man), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 somewhere	case
7	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 get	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hid	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hid	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 morning	nummod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hid	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 morning	punct
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	19 pretended	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pretended	nsubj
19	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hid	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 going	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 pretended	advcl
23	out	out	ADV	_	22 going	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hunt	mark
25	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 going	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pretended	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hid	nsubj
28	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	ccomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 thicket	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 thicket	det
31	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hid	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 watch	mark
33	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hid	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	must	corner	food				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from somewhere=Source
2	think speech: other	past	man					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	pretend	past	man					tree rules
4	go out	to-infinitive · progressive	man not said here				out property	tree rules
5	hunt	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hide	past	man		a thicket	morning		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in thicket=Location
7	watch	to-infinitive	man not said here					vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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