The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 16

Hans felt no fear at this strange sight, or was prudent enough to hide it if he did, and, going up to the table, sat down amongst the players.

Who acts: Hans · What happens: feel, be, hide, do, go up, sit down · To what, where: fear, strange sight, players

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans), 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	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 fear	det
4	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 sight	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 sight	det
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sight	amod
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 prudent	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 prudent	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 prudent	cop
12	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	parataxis
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 prudent	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hide	mark
15	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 prudent	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hide	obj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 did	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 did	nsubj
19	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hide	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sat	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 and	punct
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 sat	advcl
24	up	up	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 table	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 table	det
27	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 sat	compound:prt
31	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	33 players	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 players	det
33	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sat	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Hans	no fear	this strange sight		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fear=Theme at sight=Location
2	is	past				enough, prudent property	tree rules
3	hide	to-infinitive		fear			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	do a condition, not said to happen	past	Hans				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go up	gerund				to the table	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	sit down	past	Hans not said here		the players		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst player=Location

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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