The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 3
Their hut was quite hidden by trees, and none saw their beauty but the sun by day, and the moon by night, and the eyes of the stars.
Who acts: trees, none · What happens: hide, see · To what, where: hut, beauty
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, none), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hut | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | aux:pass |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 hidden | advmod |
| 5 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 trees | case |
| 7 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hidden | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 sun | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sun | det |
| 16 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beauty | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 moon | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 moon | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 moon | det |
| 22 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 night | case |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 moon | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eyes | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 eyes | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eyes | det |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hidden | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 stars | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stars | det |
| 31 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 eyes | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · passive | trees | woman's hut | the eyes of the stars obl | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | past | none | woman's beauty but the sun | day | the moon by night obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
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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