The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 162
Then he hid himself underneath, and began to snore loudly.
Who acts: Stan · What happens: hide, begin, snore · To what, where: Stan
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hid | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 hid | obj |
| 5 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 3 hid | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 snore | mark |
| 10 | snore | snore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 10 snore | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Stan | Stan | then | underneath property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||
| 2 | begin | past | Stan not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | snore | to-infinitive | Stan not said here | loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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