The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 163
Fearing lest it should be a wolf, she hid herself in the hollow trunk of a willow tree which hung over the fountain.
Who acts: Zizi, noise, willow tree · What happens: fear, be, hide, hang · To what, where: Zizi, hollow trunk, fountain
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zizi, noise, willow tree), 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 | Fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 hid | advcl |
| 2 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 7 wolf | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wolf | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wolf | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wolf | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fearing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fearing | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hid | nsubj |
| 10 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 hid | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 trunk | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trunk | det |
| 14 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trunk | amod |
| 15 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hid | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | compound |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trunk | nmod |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hung | nsubj |
| 21 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tree | acl:relcl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 fountain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fountain | det |
| 24 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hung | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | Zizi not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | should | noise | lest a wolf | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | Zizi | Zizi | the hollow trunk of a willow tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in trunk=Location | |||
| 4 | hang | past | a willow tree | the fountain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fountain=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.
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