The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 24
So they both came out of their hiding-places, and gradually the lamb and dove drew near too, and they all forgot their fear.
Who acts: roses, lamb · What happens: come out, draw, forget, fear · To what, where: hiding places, fear
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses, lamb), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 places | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 places | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 places | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 places | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hiding | punct |
| 10 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drew | cc |
| 13 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 15 lamb | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lamb | det |
| 15 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dove | cc |
| 17 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lamb | conj |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 too | case |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 drew | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgot | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 forgot | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forgot | nsubj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 forgot | advmod |
| 25 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fear | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forgot | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | roses = rose | roses's hiding places | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient place=Result | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | the lamb and dove | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | forget | past | roses = rose | roses's fear | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fear | roses = rose | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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