The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 73
The two animals crossed the sea; the dog hid near the house, and the cat stole into the chamber.
Who acts: two animals, dog, cat · What happens: cross, hide, steal · To what, where: sea, house, chamber
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 (two animals, dog, cat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 animals | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 animals | nummod |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 4 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 hid | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hid | nsubj |
| 10 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossed | parataxis |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hid | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stole | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stole | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cat | det |
| 17 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stole | nsubj |
| 18 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crossed | parataxis |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 chamber | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chamber | det |
| 21 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stole | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | the two animals | the sea | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | the dog | the house | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near house=Location | ||||
| 3 | steal | past | the cat | the chamber | 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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