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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 noticed | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 shore | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shore | det |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 far | obl |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Milan | compound |
| 7 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 noticed | nsubj |
| 8 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 garments | nummod |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 garments | amod |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 garments | amod |
| 12 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 noticed | obj |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 garments | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 grass | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grass | det |
| 16 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dismounting | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dismounting | cc |
| 19 | dismounting | dismount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 noticed | advcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dismounting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 crept | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 crept | nsubj |
| 25 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 noticed | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 25 crept | advmod |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 bulrushes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bulrushes | det |
| 29 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bulrushes | amod |
| 30 | bulrushes | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 crept | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 took | punct |
| 32 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 noticed | parataxis |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 took | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 garments | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 garments | det |
| 36 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 one | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 hid | cc |
| 38 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 took | conj |
| 39 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 hid | obj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 it | case |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 hid | obl |
| 42 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 44 bushes | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 bushes | det |
| 44 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 hid | obl |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 grew | nsubj |
| 46 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 bushes | acl:relcl |
| 47 | round | round | ADP | _ | 49 lake | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 lake | det |
| 49 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 grew | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Prince Milan | thirty little white garments | far property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer garment=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | thirty little white garments not said here | the grass | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location | ||||
| 3 | dismount | gerund | Prince Milan not said here | from Milan's horse | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | creep down | past | horse | the high bulrushes | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bulrush=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | take | past | one of the garments | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hide | past | horse | the bushes | with grass | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind bush=Location | |||
| 7 | grow | past | the bushes | round the lake | vn 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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