The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 6
‘I am here, my Graciosa,’ cried Percinet, springing out of the barrel where he had been hiding.
Who acts: I, Percinet · What happens: be, cry, spring out, hide · To what, where: barrel
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Percinet), 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 | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Graciosa | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Graciosa | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 here | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Graciosa | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 springing | punct |
| 13 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 barrel | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 barrel | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 barrel | det |
| 17 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 springing | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 hiding | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hiding | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hiding | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 hiding | aux |
| 22 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 barrel | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | spring out | gerund | the barrel | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location barrel=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide | past · perfect · progressive | Percinet | vn concealment-16-1 «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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