The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 39

“We must eat the smallest of us,” repeated the bear, stretching out a paw towards the hare; but the hare was not a hare for nothing, and before the paw had touched her, she had darted deep into the wood.

Who acts: We, hare · What happens: eat, repeat, stretch out, not be, touch, dart · To what, where: smallest, bear, paw, hare, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (We, 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	_	4 eat	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 repeated	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smallest	det
6	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 eat	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 smallest	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
11	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bear	det
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repeated	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stretching	punct
15	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 repeated	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 stretching	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 paw	det
18	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stretching	obj
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 hare	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hare	det
21	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stretching	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 hare	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 hare	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hare	det
25	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hare	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hare	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 hare	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hare	det
29	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 repeated	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 nothing	case
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 hare	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 touched	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 touched	cc
34	before	before	ADP	_	36 paw	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 paw	det
36	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 touched	obl
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 touched	aux
38	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 repeated	parataxis
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 touched	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 darted	punct
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 darted	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 darted	aux
43	darted	dart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 touched	conj
44	deep	deep	ADV	_	47 wood	advmod
45	into	into	ADP	_	47 wood	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 wood	det
47	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 darted	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 repeated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	must	We	the smallest				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent small=Patient
2	repeat	past		the bear				tree rules
3	stretch out	gerund		a paw			towards the hare	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent paw=Patient towards hare=Recipient
4	not is a	past	the hare	a hare			for nothing	tree rules
5	touch	past · perfect		hare		before the paw		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme
6	dart	past · perfect · passive		hare	the wood			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into wood=Trajectory

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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