The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 9

Punctual to their hour all three appeared, eagerly watched by Peronnik, who lay hid in the bushes close by.

Who acts: three, Peronnik · What happens: appear, watch, lie, hide · To what, where: bushes

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 (three, Peronnik), 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	Punctual	punctual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 three	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 hour	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hour	nmod:poss
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Punctual	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 three	det
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 appeared	nsubj
7	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watched	punct
9	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	10 watched	advmod
10	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 appeared	xcomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 Peronnik	case
12	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 watched	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lay	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lay	nsubj
15	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Peronnik	acl:relcl
16	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lay	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 bushes	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bushes	det
19	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hid	obl
20	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bushes	amod
21	by	by	ADP	_	20 close	fixed
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	all three			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	watch	participle	all three not said here		by Peronnik; eagerly property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by peronnik=Location
3	lie	past	Peronnik			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hide	past	Peronnik not said here	the bushes		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=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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