The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 69
Upon this she hid them under the bed and went to open the door.
Who acts: wife · What happens: hide, go, open · To what, where: wolves, bed, door
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hid | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | hid | hide | 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 hid | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bed | det |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hid | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hid | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 open | mark |
| 12 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 went | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 open | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | wife | wolves = wolf | the bed | upon this | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient upon this=Location | ||
| 2 | go | past | wife not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | open | to-infinitive | wife not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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