The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 73

He hid himself in the hall behind a great picture, that he might see what would happen.

Who acts: dog · What happens: hide, see, happen · To what, where: dog, hall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 hid	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
7	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 picture	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 picture	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 picture	amod
10	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 see	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hid	advcl
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happen	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 happen	aux
18	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 see	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hide	past	dog	dog	the hall	behind a great picture	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in hall=Location
2	see	might	dog				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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