The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 51
‘The lion saw them coming and hid himself behind a large tree.
Who acts: lion, marks · What happens: see, come, hide · To what, where: marks, lion, large tree
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, marks), 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 | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lion | det |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 hid | obj |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the lion | marks = mark | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | marks = mark not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hide | past | the lion not said here | lion | a large tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind tree=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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