The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 15

Making up his mind to get the situation if possible, he hid himself behind one of the mounds, and turned his jacket outside in, so that the man would not know him again so easily.

Who acts: boy, man · What happens: make up, get, hide, turn, not know, mind · To what, where: mind, situation, boy, jacket

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, man), 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	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hid	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Making	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mind	nmod:poss
4	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Making	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 situation	det
8	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 possible	mark
10	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Making	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hid	nsubj
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 hid	obj
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 one	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hid	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 mounds	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mounds	det
19	mounds	mound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turned	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 turned	cc
22	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hid	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 jacket	nmod:poss
24	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turned	obj
25	outside	outside	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
26	in	in	ADV	_	22 turned	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 know	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 know	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 know	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 know	advmod
34	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 turned	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 know	obj
36	again	again	ADV	_	34 know	advmod
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 easily	advmod
38	easily	easily	ADV	_	34 know	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make up	gerund	boy not said here	boy's mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
2	get	to-infinitive	boy not said here	the situation			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer situation=Stimulus
3	hide	past	boy	boy		behind one of the mounds	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind one=Location
4	turn	past		boy's jacket		outside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme
5	not know	would	the man	boy	again	easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	mind		boy				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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