The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 48

The next thing to do was to find the cabinet, and the Prince soon came to it, hidden away in a dark corner, though indeed it was so old and battered-looking that he would never have noticed it of his own accord.

Who acts: next thing, Prince, cabinet · What happens: do, be, come, hide away, batter, look · To what, where: cabinet, dark corner

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next thing, Prince, cabinet), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thing	acl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 find	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cabinet	det
10	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 find	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hidden	punct
20	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 came	advcl
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 hidden	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 corner	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 corner	det
24	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 corner	amod
25	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hidden	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 old	punct
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 old	mark
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	32 old	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 old	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 old	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 old	advmod
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 find	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 battered	cc
34	battered	batter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 old	conj
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 looking	punct
36	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 battered	advcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 noticed	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 noticed	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 noticed	aux
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 noticed	advmod
41	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 noticed	aux
42	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 looking	advcl
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 noticed	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	47 accord	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 accord	nmod:poss
46	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 accord	amod
47	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 noticed	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive	the next thing not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the next thing			find property	tree rules
3	come	past	the Prince		cabinet	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
4	hide away	participle	the Prince not said here		a dark corner	away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
5	is	past	cabinet			indeed, old property	tree rules
6	batter	participle	cabinet not said here				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	look	gerund	cabinet not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	not notice	would · perfect	prince	cabinet		of noise's own accord	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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