The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 147
I thought I had hidden you safely from the whole world, and in spite of it you have managed to deceive me.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: think, hide, manage, deceive, spite · To what, where: you, whole world, spite, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hidden | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hidden | aux |
| 5 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 hidden | obj |
| 7 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 5 hidden | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 world | amod |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hidden | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 managed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 managed | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 spite | case |
| 15 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 managed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spite | nmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 managed | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 managed | aux |
| 20 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 deceive | mark |
| 22 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 managed | xcomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 deceive | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | past · perfect | I | you | the whole world | safely property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Patient from world=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | manage | present · perfect | you | spite of spite | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | deceive | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 5 | spite | spite | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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