The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 23
He slipped into this, without either the witch or her daughters noticing him, and hid himself under one of the beds.
Who acts: addition, daughters · What happens: slip, notice, hide · To what, where: this, addition
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (addition, daughters), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slipped | nsubj |
| 2 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 slipped | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 witch | punct |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 witch | case |
| 7 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 9 witch | cc:preconj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slipped | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 daughters | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 witch | conj |
| 13 | noticing | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 daughters | acl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 noticing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hid | cc |
| 17 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slipped | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 hid | obj |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 hid | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 beds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beds | det |
| 23 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | addition | this | without the witch or sweetheart's daughters | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | notice | gerund | sweetheart's daughters not said here | addition | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | addition not said here | addition | under one of the beds | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient under one=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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