The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 19
When the man was gone, the girl climbed down, and hid herself on the ground in some bushes.
Who acts: man, girl · What happens: be, climb down, hide · To what, where: girl, ground
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, girl), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | cop |
| 5 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 climbed | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 climbed | nsubj |
| 9 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 climbed | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hid | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hid | cc |
| 13 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 climbed | conj |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 hid | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hid | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bushes | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 bushes | det |
| 20 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hid | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the man | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | climb down | past | the girl | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | the girl not said here | girl | the ground | in some bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient on ground=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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