The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 43
Some one is certainly following us, and the danger is near, but the trees hide our enemies from us.’
Who acts: one, trees · What happens: follow, be, hide · To what, where: us, enemies
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, trees), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 near | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 following | aux |
| 4 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 following | advmod |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 one | acl |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 following | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 near | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 near | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 danger | det |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 near | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 near | cop |
| 12 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hide | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 hide | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hide | nsubj |
| 17 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 near | conj |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 19 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hide | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 us | case |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 hide | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 near | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 near | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · progressive | some one not said here | us | certainly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | some one | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hide | present | the trees | our enemies | from us | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient from we=Beneficiary |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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