The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 77

One evening she managed to get hold of it, and the young man watched carefully where she hid it away, in a secret place in the bedchamber of her mistress.

Who acts: gardener, young man · What happens: manage, get, watch, hide away, hold · To what, where: hold, secret place

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardener, young 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 managed	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 managed	nsubj
4	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 managed	xcomp
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hold	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 watched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 watched	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 watched	nsubj
15	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 managed	parataxis
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	15 watched	advmod
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 hid	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hid	nsubj
19	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 watched	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hid	obj
21	away	away	ADV	_	19 hid	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 place	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 place	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 place	det
25	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 place	amod
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hid	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 bedchamber	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bedchamber	det
29	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 place	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 mistress	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mistress	nmod:poss
32	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bedchamber	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	past	gardener			evening		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get	to-infinitive	gardener not said here	hold of hold				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
3	watch	past	the young man				carefully property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	hide away	past	gardener	hold	a secret place in the bedchamber of gardener's mistress		away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in place=Location
5	hold			hold				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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