More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 88

"Let the hare alone," said another; "he can tell a nearer way than the best of us all.

Who acts: hare · What happens: let, say, tell · To what, where: hare, another, nearer way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Let	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 Let	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
18	than	than	ADP	_	20 best	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 best	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 tell	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 best	obl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 us	nmod:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		the hare	alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		another		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	hare	a nearer way		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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