The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 93

In one instant both the man and his wife were hiding under the table, and to all appearance the room was empty.

Who acts: wife, room · What happens: hide, be · To what, where: table

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, room), 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	In	in	ADP	_	6 man	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 man	nsubj
3	instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
4	both	both	CCONJ	_	6 man	cc:preconj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hiding	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hiding	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hiding	aux
11	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 man	conj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 table	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 table	det
14	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hiding	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 empty	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 empty	cc
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 appearance	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 appearance	det
19	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 empty	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 room	det
21	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 empty	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 empty	cop
23	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	Man's wife			the table			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under table=Location
2	is	past	the room					to all appearance; empty property	tree rules

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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