The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 41

She lifted up a large stone which lay over the cellar, saying, ‘Hide yourself there; you can hear all that is spoken in this room.

Who acts: woman, large stone, you · What happens: lift up, lie, say, hide, hear, speak · To what, where: large stone, cellar, yourself, that, room · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, large stone, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 lifted	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stone	amod
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lay	nsubj
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stone	acl:relcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 cellar	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cellar	det
11	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lifted	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Hide	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Hide	punct
16	Hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 saying	ccomp
17	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 Hide	obj
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 Hide	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 hear	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 hear	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 hear	aux
22	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lifted	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 spoken	det:predet
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 spoken	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 spoken	aux:pass
26	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 hear	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 room	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 room	det
29	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 spoken	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lift up	past	woman	a large stone		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	lie	past	a large stone		the cellar	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over cellar=Location
3	say speech: assert	gerund	woman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hide	infinitive		yourself	there	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient
5	hear	can	you			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	speak speech: other	present · passive		that	this room	tree rules

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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