The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 90

So the rabbit took one of the green oranges and began to bite it, but its skin was so hard that he could hardly get his teeth through the rind.

Who acts: rabbit, skin · What happens: take, begin, bite, be, get · To what, where: one, fruit, teeth, rind

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, skin), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rabbit	det
3	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 took	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 oranges	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 oranges	det
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 oranges	amod
9	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bite	mark
13	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bite	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hard	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 hard	cc
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 skin	nmod:poss
18	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hard	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hard	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 hard	advmod
21	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 get	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 get	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 get	aux
25	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	26 get	advmod
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hard	ccomp
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 teeth	nmod:poss
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 get	obj
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 rind	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rind	det
31	rind	rind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 get	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the rabbit	one of the green oranges			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	begin	past	the rabbit not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	bite	to-infinitive	the rabbit not said here	fruit			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	past	fruit's skin			hard property	tree rules
5	get	could	Rabbit	Rabbit's teeth	the rind	hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus

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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