The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 94
‘After the ceremony you gave her three rings and a charm with a cross on it, and then put her in a cottage in the forest, thinking to hide the matter securely.
Who acts: you · What happens: give, put, think, hide · To what, where: three rings, girl, cottage, matter
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 ceremony | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ceremony | det |
| 4 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 rings | nummod |
| 9 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 charm | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 charm | det |
| 12 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cross | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cross | det |
| 15 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 charm | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cross | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 put | advmod |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 cottage | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cottage | det |
| 25 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thinking | punct |
| 30 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 put | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 hide | mark |
| 32 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 thinking | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 matter | det |
| 34 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hide | obj |
| 35 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 32 hide | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | you | three rings and a charm with a cross on cross | girl | after the ceremony | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient ring=Theme | ||
| 2 | put | past | you not said here | girl | a cottage | then | in the forest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in cottage=Destination | |
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide | to-infinitive | you not said here | the matter | securely property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/94/