The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 22
Minnikin did this, and almost before he had crept into the cupboard and hidden himself, came the Troll.
Who acts: Minnikin, Troll · What happens: do, creep, hide, come · To what, where: this, cupboard, Minnikin
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (Minnikin, Troll), 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 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crept | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crept | cc |
| 6 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 crept | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 crept | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 crept | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crept | aux |
| 10 | crept | creep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 did | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 cupboard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cupboard | det |
| 13 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crept | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hidden | cc |
| 15 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 crept | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 hidden | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Troll | det |
| 20 | Troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Minnikin | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | creep | past · perfect | Minnikin | the cupboard | almost property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cupboard=Destination | |||
| 3 | hide | participle | Minnikin not said here | Minnikin | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the Troll | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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