The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 75
Then the rabbit rubbed his eyes, and gathered a store of fresh green things from under the bushes, and told Gudu that he was ready for the journey.
Who acts: rabbit, Gudu · What happens: rub, gather, tell, be · To what, where: eyes, store, Gudu · 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 (rabbit, Gudu), 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 | 4 rubbed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rabbit | det |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rubbed | nsubj |
| 4 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rubbed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gathered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gathered | cc |
| 9 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rubbed | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 store | det |
| 11 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gathered | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 things | case |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 store | nmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 bushes | case |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 bushes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bushes | det |
| 19 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 things | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rubbed | conj |
| 23 | Gudu | Gudu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 ready | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ready | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ready | cop |
| 27 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 told | ccomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 journey | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 journey | det |
| 30 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ready | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | the rabbit | Rabbit's eyes | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | gather | past | the rabbit not said here | a store of fresh green things from the bushes | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the rabbit not said here | Gudu | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gudu=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Gudu | for the journey; ready 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: «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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