The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 103
When he had given these directions he ran out of the back door and hid behind a barrel.
Who acts: dog · What happens: give, run, hide · To what, where: dog, directions, back door, barrel
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 given | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 directions | det |
| 6 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 directions | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | compound |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hid | cc |
| 15 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ran | conj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 barrel | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 barrel | det |
| 18 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hid | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient direction=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | past | dog | this directions not said here | the back door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent direction=Theme out door=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | hide | past | dog not said here | a barrel | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind barrel=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 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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