The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 34

‘Well, but I didn’t let him go, after all,’ said the Princess; ‘but father is so quick-tempered, so I hid him in the cupboard, but if father has not found any one then the man is still here.’

Who acts: I, man · What happens: not let, go, say, be, hide, not find · To what, where: man, Princess, cupboard, father · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, man), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 let	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 let	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 all	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Princess	det
18	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 tempered	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 tempered	cc
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tempered	dep
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tempered	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 tempered	advmod
25	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tempered	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 quick	punct
27	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 let	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hid	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 hid	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hid	nsubj
31	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tempered	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hid	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 cupboard	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cupboard	det
35	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hid	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 found	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 found	cc
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 found	mark
39	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 found	nsubj:pass
40	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 found	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 found	advmod
42	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 tempered	conj
43	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	44 one	det
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 found	obj
45	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 here	advmod
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 man	det
47	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 here	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 here	cop
49	still	still	ADV	_	50 here	advmod
50	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 found	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
52	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	past · do-support	I	man				tree rules
2	go	infinitive	man not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	I not said here	the Princess		after all		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
4	is	present					temper property	tree rules
5	hide	past	I	man	the cupboard			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in cupboard=Location
6	not find a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect · passive		father				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme one=Attribute
7	is	present	the man			then; still	here property	tree rules

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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