The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 29
And the next day they hid themselves and waited till the little hare came out of the royal hut.
Who acts: friends, next day · What happens: hide, wait, come out · To what, where: friends, royal hut
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, next day), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hid | nsubj |
| 6 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 hid | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 waited | cc |
| 9 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hid | conj |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 hare | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hare | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hare | amod |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waited | obl |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 hut | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hut | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hut | det |
| 18 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hut | amod |
| 19 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | friends = friend | friends = friend | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | friends = friend not said here | till the little hare | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come out | past | the next day | the royal hut | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hut=Result |
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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