The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 40

Out of the pieces there sprang a hare, and in a moment the greyhounds were after it, and they caught it and killed it; and out of the hare there came a pigeon.

Who acts: greyhounds · What happens: spring, be, catch, kill, come · To what, where: hare, pieces, pigeon

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greyhounds), 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	Out	out	ADP	_	4 pieces	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 pieces	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pieces	det
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sprang	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sprang	advmod
6	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hare	det
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 it	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 it	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 moment	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 moment	det
13	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 it	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 greyhounds	det
15	greyhounds	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 it	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 it	cop
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sprang	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 caught	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 caught	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 caught	nsubj
22	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprang	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 caught	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 killed	cc
25	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 caught	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 killed	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 came	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 came	cc
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 hare	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 hare	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hare	det
32	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obl
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 came	advmod
34	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprang	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 pigeon	det
36	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 came	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past		a hare	the pieces; there			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hare=Theme
2	is	past	the greyhounds			after hare; moment		tree rules
3	catch	past	greyhounds = greyhound	hare				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	kill	past	greyhounds = greyhound not said here	hare				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	come	past		a pigeon	there		out the hare	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pigeon=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 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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