The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 99

The rabbit would have liked to ask him why he ate food that he knew would burn him, only he was afraid, and just nodded in reply; but when they had gone on a little further, he said to Gudu:

Who acts: Rabbit, eyes · What happens: like, ask, eat, know, burn, be · To what, where: rabbit, food, 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, eyes), 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	5 liked	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 liked	aux
5	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 ate	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ask	obj
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 ate	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ate	nsubj
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	parataxis
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 knew	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ate	advcl
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 burn	aux
17	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 knew	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 burn	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 afraid	punct
20	only	only	ADV	_	23 afraid	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 afraid	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 afraid	cop
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 burn	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 nodded	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 nodded	cc
26	just	just	ADV	_	27 nodded	advmod
27	nodded	nod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 afraid	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 reply	case
29	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nodded	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 gone	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 gone	cc
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 gone	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gone	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 gone	aux
35	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 liked	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 further	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 little	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 further	obl
39	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 gone	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 liked	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 Gudu	case
44	Gudu	Gudu	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 said	obl
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 liked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	like	would · perfect · passive		the rabbit			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Rabbit not said here		Rabbit		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	eat	past	Rabbit	food			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
4	know	past	Rabbit				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	burn	would	Rabbit not said here	Rabbit			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	is	past	Rabbit			afraid property	tree rules
7	nod	participle	Rabbit not said here			in reply	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in reply=Theme
8	go	past · perfect	eyes = eye			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	say speech: assert	past	Rabbit		Gudu		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to gudu=Recipient

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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