The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 160
“A bronze ring that is hidden under a cushion.”
What happens: hide · To what, where: bronze ring, cushion
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ring | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 3 | bronze | bronze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hidden | aux:pass |
| 7 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ring | acl:relcl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 cushion | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cushion | det |
| 10 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hidden | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ring | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide in a quote | present · passive | a bronze ring | a cushion | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under cushion=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 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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