The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 106
But once again the rabbit's hopes were dashed to the ground, for Gudu said hastily:
Who acts: Gudu, rabbit · What happens: dash, say, hope · To what, where: hopes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (Gudu, rabbit), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 dashed | cc |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 again | advmod |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 dashed | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 rabbit | case |
| 7 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dashed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dashed | aux:pass |
| 9 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dashed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 said | mark |
| 15 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dashed | conj |
| 17 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past · passive | the rabbit's hopes | again | to the ground result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to ground=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Gudu | hastily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hope | the rabbit | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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