The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 5
If we were to hide ourselves in that, no one could find us.
Who acts: we, one · What happens: hide, find · To what, where: ourselves, that, us
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 (we, one), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 hide | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hide | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hide | aux |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hide | mark |
| 5 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 find | advcl |
| 6 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 hide | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hide | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hide | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide a condition, not said to happen | past | we | ourselves | that | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient in that=Location | |||
| 2 | find | could | no one | us | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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