The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 28
This was hardly done when he heard steps coming along the floor, so he hid himself quickly in the folds of a curtain.
Who acts: Halfman, steps · What happens: do, hear, come, hide · To what, where: This, steps, floor, Halfman, folds
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halfman, steps), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 heard | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | advcl |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 heard | obj |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 steps | acl |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 floor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 floor | det |
| 12 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coming | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hid | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 hid | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hid | nsubj |
| 16 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | advcl |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 hid | obj |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 hid | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 folds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 folds | det |
| 21 | folds | fold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hid | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 curtain | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 curtain | det |
| 24 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 folds | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | This | hardly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Halfman | steps | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | steps not said here | the floor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along floor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hide | past | Halfman | Halfman | the folds of a curtain | quickly property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in fold=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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