The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 81
He hid the trunk in a wood under some dry leaves, and then walked into the town.
Who acts: bottom · What happens: hide, walk · To what, where: trunk, wood, town
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bottom), 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 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trunk | det |
| 4 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 leaves | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 leaves | det |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leaves | amod |
| 11 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hid | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 walked | advmod |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | bottom | the trunk | a wood | under some dry leaves | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient in wood=Location | ||
| 2 | walk | past | bottom not said here | then | into the town result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into town=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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