The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 7

And when he came out of the warren in the early morning sunshine, and there saw the shadow cast by his long and pointed ears, a terrible fright seized him.

Who acts: Hare, terrible fright · What happens: come out, see, cast, seize · To what, where: warren, early morning sunshine, shadow, Hare

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, terrible fright), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saw	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 warren	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 warren	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 warren	det
8	warren	warren	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 sunshine	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sunshine	det
11	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sunshine	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sunshine	compound
13	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 saw	cc
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 saw	advmod
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shadow	det
19	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
20	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 shadow	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	26 ears	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 ears	nmod:poss
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ears	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pointed	cc
25	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 long	conj
26	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cast	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 seized	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fright	det
29	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fright	amod
30	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 seized	nsubj
31	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 saw	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seized	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	Hare	the warren	the early morning sunshine		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient warren=Result
2	see	past		the shadow	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus
3	cast	participle		the shadow not said here		by Hare's long ears	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by ear=Destination
4	seize	past	a terrible fright	Hare			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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