The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 22

And they answered civilly, though they were so terrified that they hid behind one another, and said:

Who acts: children · What happens: answer, be, hide, say · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	_	3 answered	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	advcl
4	civilly	civilly	ADV	_	3 answered	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 terrified	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 terrified	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 terrified	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 terrified	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 terrified	advmod
10	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answered	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 hid	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hid	nsubj
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 terrified	advcl
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hid	obj
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 one	fixed
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	children = child		civilly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	children = child		terrified property	tree rules
3	hide	past	children = child	one		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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