The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 255
‘We can’t hide her away in the black ground.’
Who acts: We · What happens: not hide away · To what, where: SNOWDROP, black ground
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | _ | 5 hide | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 hide | advmod |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hide | obj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 hide | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ground | amod |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hide | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hide away | can | We | SNOWDROP | the black ground | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient in ground=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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