The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 68
Then he hid himself in the castle and awaited the old witch’s arrival.
Who acts: hair, old witch · What happens: hide, await, arrive · To what, where: hair, castle, arrival
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, old witch), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hid | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 hid | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 awaited | cc |
| 9 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 witch | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 witch | amod |
| 12 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 witch | case |
| 14 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 awaited | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | hair | hair | the castle | then | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in castle=Location | ||
| 2 | await | past | hair not said here | the old witch's arrival | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arrive | the old witch | nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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