The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 19
So, when the evening came, the old woman hid herself under the tree and waited for the prince.
Who acts: evening, old woman · What happens: come, hide, wait · To what, where: woman, tree
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, old woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 hid | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hid | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hid | nsubj |
| 11 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 hid | obj |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hid | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 waited | cc |
| 17 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hid | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 prince | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 waited | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hide | past | the old woman | woman | the tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient under tree=Location | |||
| 3 | wait | past | the old woman not said here | for the prince | 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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