The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 65
And he is now hiding under a bush, lest a passing stranger might see him.’
Who acts: sultan, passing stranger · What happens: hide, pass, see · To what, where: bush, sultan
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, passing stranger), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hiding | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hiding | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hiding | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 hiding | advmod |
| 5 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 bush | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bush | det |
| 8 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hiding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 10 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stranger | det |
| 12 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stranger | amod |
| 13 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hiding | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hiding | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hiding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present · progressive | sultan | a bush | now | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bush=Location | |||
| 2 | pass | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | see | might | a passing stranger | sultan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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