The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 91

The old man did so, and when they came to the palace he hid her behind the great picture and advised her to keep quite still, and he placed himself behind the picture also.

Who acts: old man, orders, man · What happens: do, come, hide, advise, keep, place · To what, where: palace, Princess, great picture, man, picture

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 (old man, orders, man), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hid	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hid	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hid	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hid	nsubj
15	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hid	obj
17	behind	behind	ADP	_	20 picture	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 picture	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 picture	amod
20	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hid	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 advised	cc
22	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hid	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 advised	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 keep	mark
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 advised	advcl
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 still	advmod
27	still	still	ADV	_	25 keep	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 placed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 placed	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 placed	nsubj
31	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 placed	obj
33	behind	behind	ADP	_	35 picture	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 picture	det
35	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 placed	obl
36	also	also	ADV	_	31 placed	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past	the old man					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	orders = order			the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
3	hide	past	man	Princess		the great picture		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Patient behind picture=Location
4	advise speech: other	past	man not said here		Princess			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	keep	to-infinitive	man not said here				still	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	place	past	man	man		the picture		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme behind picture=Destination

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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