The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 88

The rabbit hopped forward with joy, for he was very hungry; but Gudu said to him: 'Pluck the green fruit, you will find it much the best.

Who acts: rabbit, Gudu, you · What happens: hop, be, say, pluck, find · To what, where: Rabbit, green fruit, fruit · 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, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hopped	nsubj
3	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 hopped	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 joy	case
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hopped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hungry	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 hungry	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hungry	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hungry	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 hungry	advmod
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hopped	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hopped	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Pluck	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 Pluck	punct
21	Pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fruit	det
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fruit	amod
24	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Pluck	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 find	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Pluck	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	obj
30	much	much	ADV	_	32 best	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 best	det
32	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 find	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hop	past	the rabbit			with joy; forward property	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme
2	is	past	Rabbit			hungry property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Gudu		Rabbit		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	pluck	infinitive		the green fruit			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
5	find	future	you	fruit		good property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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