The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 5

A little further down the road the hare was resting in a ditch, but when she saw the bear, she came out and spoke to him, and inquired why he looked so sad.

Who acts: hare, bear · What happens: rest, see, come out, speak, inquire, look · To what, where: road, ditch, bear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, bear), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 further	obl
3	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 saw	advmod
4	down	down	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 further	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 resting	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 resting	aux
10	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 road	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 ditch	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ditch	det
13	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 resting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 saw	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 saw	advmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bear	det
20	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	parataxis
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 spoke	cc
26	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 spoke	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 inquired	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 inquired	cc
31	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
32	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	34 looked	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 looked	nsubj
34	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 inquired	advcl
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 sad	advmod
36	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 looked	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past · progressive	the hare	the road not said here		a ditch		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent road=Theme in ditch=Location
2	see	past	hare	the bear			far property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus
3	come out	past	hare				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	speak speech: other	past	hare not said here		bear			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
5	inquire speech: other	past	hare not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	look	past	bear				sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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