The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 57
Then the young man glided up noiselessly and laid hold of her clothes, which he hid under a rock at some distance.
Who acts: young man, clothes · What happens: glide up, lay, hide, hold · To what, where: hold, rock, clothes
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, clothes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 glided | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glided | nsubj |
| 5 | glided | glide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 glided | compound:prt |
| 7 | noiselessly | noiselessly | ADV | _ | 5 glided | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laid | cc |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glided | conj |
| 10 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 clothes | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 hold | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hid | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hid | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hid | nsubj |
| 17 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 rock | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rock | det |
| 20 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hid | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 distance | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 distance | det |
| 23 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hid | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glide up | participle | the young man | then | noiselessly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | past | the young man not said here | hold of Maiden's clothes | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | ||||
| 3 | hide | past | Maiden's clothes | a rock | at some distance | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rock=Location | |||
| 4 | hold | Maiden's clothes | 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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