The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 8
“Pu, pu, pu, pum, poh,” piped the hare; but this time her voice was so small that the bear could hardly hear her.
Who acts: Pu, time, bear · What happens: pipe, be, hear · To what, where: hare
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 (Pu, time, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pu | punct |
| 2 | Pu | pu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pu | punct |
| 4 | pu | pu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pu | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pu | punct |
| 6 | pu | pu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pu | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pum | punct |
| 8 | pum | pum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pu | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 poh | punct |
| 10 | poh | poh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pu | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pu | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pu | punct |
| 13 | piped | pipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hare | det |
| 15 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piped | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 small | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 small | cc |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 small | nsubj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 voice | nmod:poss |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 time | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 small | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 small | advmod |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 piped | parataxis |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 hear | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bear | det |
| 27 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hear | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 hear | aux |
| 29 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 30 hear | advmod |
| 30 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 small | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 hear | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 piped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pipe | past | Pu and pu and pu and pum and poh | the hare | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this time hare's voice | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | could | the bear | hare | hardly property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=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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