The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 59

He led her down to the strand, but when the time drew near for the Troll to come, he climbed up into the tree again and hid himself.

Who acts: Ritter, time · What happens: lead down, draw, come, climb up, hide · To what, where: daughter, strand, tree, Ritter

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ritter, time), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	nsubj
2	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 led	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 strand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strand	det
7	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 climbed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 climbed	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 drew	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drew	nsubj
13	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 climbed	advcl
14	near	near	ADV	_	13 drew	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 Troll	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Troll	det
17	Troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drew	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 drew	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drew	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 climbed	nsubj
22	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 led	parataxis
23	up	up	ADV	_	22 climbed	advmod
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 tree	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 climbed	obl
27	again	again	ADV	_	22 climbed	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hid	cc
29	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 climbed	conj
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 hid	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead down	past	Ritter	daughter	the strand			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to strand=Destination
2	draw	past	the time				for the Troll; near property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for troll=Beneficiary
3	come	to-infinitive	the time not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	climb up	past	Ritter		the tree	again		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination
5	hide	past	Ritter not said here	Ritter				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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