Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 17
You might have hidden a year-old baby under a thimble.
What happens: hide · To what, where: You
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 hidden | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hidden | aux |
| 4 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 baby | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 old | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 year | punct |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 baby | amod |
| 9 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hidden | obj |
| 10 | under | under | ADP | _ | 12 thimble | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thimble | det |
| 12 | thimble | thimble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 baby | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | might · perfect · passive | You | tree rules |
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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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