The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 163
Then he engaged eleven men to lie that night in hiding behind the Governor’s stable.
Who acts: Governor · What happens: engage, lie, hide · To what, where: eleven men, stable
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Governor), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 engaged | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 engaged | nsubj |
| 3 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 men | nummod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 engaged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lie | mark |
| 7 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 engaged | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lie | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 hiding | mark |
| 11 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lie | advcl |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 stable | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Governor | det |
| 14 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stable | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Governor | case |
| 16 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hiding | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past | Governor | eleven men | then | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | lie | to-infinitive | Governor not said here | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hide | gerund | Governor not said here | the Governor's stable | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind stable=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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