The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 23
After he had been there several days, he one day heard a great noise in the forest, which made him terribly afraid, so that he ran to hide himself among the trees.
Who acts: Prince, forest · What happens: be, hear, make, run, hide · To what, where: great noise, forest, Prince, trees
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, forest), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 there | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 there | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 noise | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 noise | amod |
| 15 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 forest | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 24 afraid | advmod |
| 24 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 made | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ran | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 ran | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ran | nsubj |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 hide | mark |
| 31 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 ran | xcomp |
| 32 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 hide | obj |
| 33 | among | among | ADP | _ | 35 trees | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 trees | det |
| 35 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 hide | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Prince | day | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Prince | a great noise | the forest | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | make | past | the forest | Prince | afraid property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 4 | run | past | Prince | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | hide | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | the trees | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient among tree=Location |
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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