The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 46
So the youth sprang to the door and unlocked it, but in his haste he forgot to hide the picture.
Who acts: youth · What happens: spring, unlock, forget, not hide · To what, where: door, haste, picture
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 (youth), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 unlocked | cc |
| 9 | unlocked | unlock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 unlocked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 forgot | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 forgot | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 haste | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 haste | nmod:poss |
| 15 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 forgot | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 forgot | nsubj |
| 17 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hide | mark |
| 19 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 forgot | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 picture | det |
| 21 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hide | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | the youth | the door | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination | ||||
| 2 | unlock | past | the youth not said here | door | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | forget | past | youth | youth's haste | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not hide | to-infinitive | youth not said here | the picture | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=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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