The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 119
‘I hid myself,’ replied the Star Gazer quietly.
Who acts: I, Star Gazer · What happens: hide, reply · To what, where: myself
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Star Gazer), 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 | _ | 3 hid | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 hid | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Gazer | det |
| 9 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Gazer | compound |
| 10 | Gazer | Gazer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 7 replied | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | I | myself | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Star Gazer | quietly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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 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.
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