The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 71
Then he followed her through the field, and hid himself behind a bush on the common.
Who acts: Curdken · What happens: follow, hide · To what, where: girl, field, Curdken, bush
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Curdken), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 followed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 followed | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 field | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hid | cc |
| 10 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 followed | conj |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hid | obj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 bush | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bush | det |
| 14 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hid | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 common | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 common | det |
| 17 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hid | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Curdken | girl | the field | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme through field=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | hide | past | Curdken not said here | Curdken | a bush | on the common | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind bush=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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