The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus, sentence 44

The wife hastily hid all the beautiful food and the wine in her oven; for if her husband had seen it, he would have been sure to ask what it all meant.

Who acts: wife, husband, food · What happens: hide, see, be, ask, mean · To what, where: beautiful food, oven, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, husband, food), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	nsubj
3	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	4 hid	advmod
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 food	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 food	det
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wine	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wine	det
11	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 food	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 oven	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 oven	nmod:poss
14	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hid	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 seen	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 seen	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 seen	mark
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 seen	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 seen	aux
21	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hid	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seen	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sure	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sure	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sure	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 sure	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 sure	cop
28	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hid	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 ask	mark
30	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sure	xcomp
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 meant	obj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 meant	nsubj
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 meant	advmod
34	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ask	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the wife	all beautiful food and the wine	wife's oven	hastily property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Patient in oven=Location
2	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		wife's husband			tree rules
3	is	would · perfect	husband			sure property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	husband not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	mean	past	food			all property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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