The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 51
She hid herself from her playmates, and curled herself up where the shadows were deepest, like a lily amongst its leaves.
Who acts: gayer, shadows · What happens: hide, curl up, be · To what, where: gayer, playmates
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gayer, shadows), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 hid | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 playmates | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 playmates | nmod:poss |
| 6 | playmates | playmate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hid | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 curled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 curled | cc |
| 9 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hid | conj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 curled | obl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 curled | compound:prt |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 deepest | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shadows | det |
| 14 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 deepest | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 deepest | cop |
| 16 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 curled | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lily | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 lily | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lily | det |
| 20 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deepest | obl |
| 21 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 23 leaves | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 23 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lily | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | gayer | gayer | gayer's playmates | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent herself=Patient from playmate=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | curl up | participle | gayer not said here | gayer | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the shadows | like a lily amongst lily's leaves; deep 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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