The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 40
If I could only hide her away somewhere, so that the cruel King could never find her.’
Who acts: I, cruel King · What happens: hide away, not find · To what, where: fairy
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cruel King), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 hide | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 hide | advmod |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hide | obj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 hide | advmod |
| 8 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 hide | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 find | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 13 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 King | amod |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 find | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 find | advmod |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hide | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide away | could | I | fairy | away, somewhere property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 2 | not find | could | the cruel King | fairy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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