The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 32
The hare pulled her hardest, and after a while they were joined by a fox, and then by a wolf, and at length a bear was added to the company, and he was of more use than all the other five beasts put together.
Who acts: hare, fox · What happens: pull, join, add, be, put together · To what, where: hardest, sorts, bear, length, other five beasts
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, fox), 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 | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hardest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 pulled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 joined | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 joined | cc |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 while | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 while | det |
| 10 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joined | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 joined | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 joined | aux:pass |
| 13 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pulled | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 fox | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fox | det |
| 16 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joined | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wolf | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wolf | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 wolf | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 wolf | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 wolf | det |
| 22 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 added | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 added | cc |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 length | case |
| 26 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 added | obl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bear | det |
| 28 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 added | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 added | aux:pass |
| 30 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pulled | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 company | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 company | det |
| 33 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 added | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 use | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 use | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 use | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 use | cop |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 use | case |
| 39 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 use | amod |
| 40 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obl |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 46 beasts | case |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 beasts | det:predet |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 beasts | det |
| 44 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 beasts | amod |
| 45 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 beasts | nummod |
| 46 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 use | nmod |
| 47 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 beasts | acl |
| 48 | together | together | ADV | _ | 47 put | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | the hare | hare's hardest | by a wolf | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hard=Theme | |||
| 2 | join | past · passive | a fox | sorts = sort | while | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past · passive | a bear | length | to the company | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to company=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | is | past | fox | of more use; than all other five beasts | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put together | participle | all other five beasts not said here | together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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