The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 109
When all is quiet we will hide in the loft.’
Who acts: all, we · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: loft
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 quiet | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 quiet | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 quiet | cop |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hide | advcl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hide | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hide | aux |
| 7 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 loft | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 loft | det |
| 10 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hide | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hide | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | all | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | future | we | the loft | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in loft=Location |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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