More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 90
Another said, "It is a subtle hare, let her alone; she will not keep the highway for fear of dogs."
Who acts: One, subtle hare, Lancaster · What happens: say, be, let, not keep, fear · To what, where: subtle hare, Lancaster, highway, dogs · 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 (One, subtle hare, Lancaster), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 hare | det |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hare | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hare | punct |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hare | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hare | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hare | det |
| 8 | subtle | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hare | amod |
| 9 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hare | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 11 let | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 keep | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 keep | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 keep | advmod |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 highway | det |
| 20 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 fear | case |
| 22 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 dogs | case |
| 24 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fear | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | One not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | One | another subtle hare | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | another subtle hare | Lancaster | alone property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 4 | not keep in a quote | future | Lancaster | the highway | for fear of dogs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent highway=Theme | |||
| 5 | fear in a quote | dogs | nom fear «feeling 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: «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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