The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 4
But she heard the giant at the gate, and she hid the prince in a closet.
Who acts: supper · What happens: hear, hide · To what, where: giant, gate, prince, closet
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 heard | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 gate | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hid | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hid | nsubj |
| 12 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hid | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 closet | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 closet | det |
| 17 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | supper | the giant | the gate | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hide | past | supper | the prince | a closet | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Patient in closet=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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