The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 36

We were therefore obliged to take refuge in distant lands, and to hide ourselves at first under different animal shapes.

What happens: oblige, take, hide · To what, where: We, refuge, distant lands, ourselves, different animal shapes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 obliged	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obliged	aux:pass
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 obliged	advmod
4	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	xcomp
7	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 lands	case
9	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lands	amod
10	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hide	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hide	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hide	mark
14	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obliged	conj
15	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 hide	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 first	case
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 hide	obl
18	under	under	ADP	_	21 shapes	case
19	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shapes	amod
20	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 shapes	compound
21	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hide	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive	We		therefore property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	take	to-infinitive	refuge	distant lands		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in land=Location
3	hide	to-infinitive	ourselves	different animal shapes		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient at first=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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