The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 64
He hid himself behind the door of the bath, and peeped through a chink.
Who acts: Aladdin · What happens: hide, peep · To what, where: Aladdin, door
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aladdin), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 hid | obj |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bath | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bath | det |
| 9 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 door | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 peeped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 peeped | cc |
| 12 | peeped | peep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hid | conj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 chink | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 chink | det |
| 15 | chink | chink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 peeped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Aladdin | Aladdin | the door of the bath | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind door=Location | |||
| 2 | peep | participle | Aladdin not said here | through a chink | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through chink=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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