The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 71
Once there, he will hide himself near the door, and you must steal secretly in and try to get hold of my watch.’
Who acts: cat, you · What happens: hide, steal, try, get, hold · To what, where: cat, door, hold, watch
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, you), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 hide | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hide | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hide | aux |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 hide | obj |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hide | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steal | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 steal | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 steal | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 steal | aux |
| 15 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 hide | parataxis |
| 16 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 17 in | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 steal | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 try | cc |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 steal | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 get | mark |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 try | xcomp |
| 22 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 watch | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 watch | nmod:poss |
| 25 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hold | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hide | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | future | cat | cat | the door; there | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient near door=Location | |||
| 2 | steal | must | you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | try | infinitive | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | hold of my watch | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hold | my watch | 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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