The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 72
But if he moves, hide thyself in the bushes near by, and see what he does.’
Who acts: man, you · What happens: move, hide, see, do · To what, where: thyself, bushes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 hide | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 moves | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 moves | nsubj |
| 4 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hide | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 moves | punct |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 6 hide | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bushes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bushes | det |
| 10 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hide | obl |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 bushes | nmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 near | fixed |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 hide | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 does | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 does | nsubj |
| 18 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hide | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move a condition, not said to happen | present | man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | imperative | you not said here | thyself | the bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient in bush=Location | |||
| 3 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | present | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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