The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 79
The naughty boy had managed to change his voice, so that she did not know it for his, and he had concealed himself so well that, though she peered about all round her, she could see no one.
Who acts: Crow, suddenness · What happens: manage, change, not know, conceal, peer, see · To what, where: naughty boy, voice, suddenness, one
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 (Crow, suddenness), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 managed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 managed | aux |
| 5 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 change | mark |
| 7 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 managed | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 voice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 change | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 know | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 change | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 his | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 know | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 concealed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 concealed | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 concealed | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 concealed | aux |
| 24 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 managed | parataxis |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 concealed | obj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 well | advmod |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 concealed | advmod |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 concealed | mark |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 peered | punct |
| 30 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 32 peered | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 peered | nsubj |
| 32 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 managed | parataxis |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 34 all | advmod |
| 34 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 her | advmod |
| 35 | round | round | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 peered | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 see | punct |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 see | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 see | aux |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 peered | conj |
| 41 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 one | det |
| 42 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 see | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past · perfect · passive | the naughty boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | to-infinitive | suddenness's voice | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | Crow | voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | conceal | past · perfect | suddenness | suddenness | well property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 5 | peer | past | Crow | round path | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | could | Crow | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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