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The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 55

Not far from the shore Prince Milan noticed thirty little white garments lying on the grass, and dismounting from his horse, he crept down under the high bulrushes, took one of the garments and hid himself with it behind the bushes which grew round the lake.

Who acts: Prince Milan, thirty little white garments, horse, bushes · What happens: notice, lie, dismount, creep down, take, hide · To what, where: thirty little white garments, grass, high bulrushes, one, horse, bushes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Milan, thirty little white garments, horse, bushes), 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

advmodadvmodcasedetoblcompoundnsubjnummodamodamodobjaclcasedetoblpunctccadvclcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjconjadvmodcasedetamodoblpunctparataxisobjcasedetnmodccconjobjcaseoblcasedetoblnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctrootNotPARTfarADVfromADPtheDETshoreNOUNPrincePROPNMilanPROPNnoticedVERBthirtyNUMlittleADJwhiteADJgarmentsNOUNlyingVERBonADPtheDETgrassNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdismountingVERBfromADPhisPRONhorseNOUN,PUNCThePRONcreptVERBdownADVunderADPtheDEThighADJbulrushesNOUN,PUNCTtookVERBoneNUMofADPtheDETgarmentsNOUNandCCONJhidVERBhimselfPRONwithADPitPRONbehindADPtheDETbushesNOUNwhichPRONgrewVERBroundADPtheDETlakeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NotnotPARTPolarity=Neg2 faradvmod
2farfarADVDegree=Pos8 noticedadvmod
3fromfromADP_5 shorecase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 shoredet
5shoreshoreNOUNNumber=Sing2 farobl
6PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing7 Milancompound
7MilanMilanPROPNNumber=Sing8 noticednsubj
8noticednoticeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thirtythirtyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card12 garmentsnummod
10littlelittleADJDegree=Pos12 garmentsamod
11whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos12 garmentsamod
12garmentsgarmentNOUNNumber=Plur8 noticedobj
13lyinglieVERBVerbForm=Ger12 garmentsacl
14ononADP_16 grasscase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 grassdet
16grassgrassNOUNNumber=Sing13 lyingobl
17,,PUNCT_19 dismountingpunct
18andandCCONJ_19 dismountingcc
19dismountingdismountVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 noticedadvcl
20fromfromADP_22 horsecase
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 horsenmod:poss
22horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing19 dismountingobl
23,,PUNCT_25 creptpunct
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 creptnsubj
25creptcreepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 noticedconj
26downdownADV_25 creptadvmod
27underunderADP_30 bulrushescase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 bulrushesdet
29highhighADJDegree=Pos30 bulrushesamod
30bulrushesbulrushNOUNNumber=Plur25 creptobl
31,,PUNCT_32 tookpunct
32tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 noticedparataxis
33oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card32 tookobj
34ofofADP_36 garmentscase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 garmentsdet
36garmentsgarmentNOUNNumber=Plur33 onenmod
37andandCCONJ_38 hidcc
38hidhideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 tookconj
39himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes38 hidobj
40withwithADP_41 itcase
41ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 hidobl
42behindbehindADP_44 bushescase
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 bushesdet
44bushesbushNOUNNumber=Plur38 hidobl
45whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel46 grewnsubj
46grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin44 bushesacl:relcl
47roundroundADP_49 lakecase
48thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 lakedet
49lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing46 grewobl
50..PUNCT_8 noticedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1noticepastPrince Milanthirty little white garmentsfar propertyvn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer garment=Stimulus
2liegerundthirty little white garments not said herethe grassvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
3dismountgerundPrince Milan not said herefrom Milan's horsevn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4creep downpasthorsethe high bulrushesdown propertyvn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bulrush=Trajectory
5takepastone of the garmentsvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6hidepasthorsethe busheswith grassvn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind bush=Location
7growpastthe bushesround the lakevn appear-48.1.1 «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 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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