The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 66
So, hiding the colt behind a thicket of bushes, he crawled along a ditch and crouched close to the very rock to which the black man was chained.
Who acts: colt · What happens: hide, crawl, crouch, chain · To what, where: colt, thicket, ditch, black man
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colt), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 13 crawled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 crawled | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 colt | det |
| 5 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hiding | obj |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 thicket | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thicket | det |
| 8 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hiding | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bushes | case |
| 10 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thicket | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hiding | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 crawled | nsubj |
| 13 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 ditch | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ditch | det |
| 16 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crawled | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crouched | cc |
| 18 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 crawled | conj |
| 19 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 crouched | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 rock | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rock | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 rock | advmod |
| 23 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 close | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 chained | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 27 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 man | amod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chained | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 chained | aux:pass |
| 30 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 rock | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 crawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | gerund | colt not said here | the colt | a thicket of bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent colt=Patient behind thicket=Location | |||
| 2 | crawl | past | colt | a ditch | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ditch=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | crouch | participle | colt not said here | close property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chain | past · passive | the black man | to the rock | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to which=Co-Patient |
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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