Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 84
Then the little hare had resort to subtlety, and made herself crooked, and limped toward the spring as if she were lame.
Who acts: little hare, mouse · What happens: have, make, limp, be · To what, where: resort, mouse
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little hare, mouse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hare | amod |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | resort | resort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 subtlety | case |
| 8 | subtlety | subtlety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | parataxis |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 limped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 limped | cc |
| 16 | limped | limp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | conj |
| 17 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 19 spring | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spring | det |
| 19 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 limped | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 lame | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 lame | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lame | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 lame | cop |
| 24 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 limped | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the little hare | resort | then | to subtlety | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resort=Patient | ||
| 2 | make | past | mouse | crooked property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product | ||||
| 3 | limp | past | spring | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | mouse | lame property | tree rules |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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