The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 24
‘Dragons and such like monsters that would devour us will not be hidden in the room.
Who acts: such monsters · What happens: devour, not hide · To what, where: us, room
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such monsters), 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 | _ | 2 Dragons | punct |
| 2 | Dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 monsters | cc |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 monsters | amod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 monsters | case |
| 6 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Dragons | conj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 devour | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 devour | aux |
| 9 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 monsters | acl:relcl |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 hidden | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 hidden | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 hidden | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hidden | aux:pass |
| 14 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 devour | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hidden | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dragons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | would | such monsters | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not hide | future · passive | us | the room | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in room=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/12/24/