The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 198
In the evening he knew that the cask would be placed in the chapel, so he hid himself there and waited.
Who acts: man · What happens: know, place, hide, wait · To what, where: cask, chapel, man
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 placed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cask | det |
| 8 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 placed | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 placed | aux:pass |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 chapel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chapel | det |
| 14 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hid | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 hid | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hid | nsubj |
| 18 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | parataxis |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 hid | obj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 hid | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 waited | cc |
| 22 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hid | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | man | evening | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | place | would · passive | the cask | the chapel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in chapel=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | man | man | there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 4 | wait | past | man not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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