The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 51

Of course there are plenty of rabbits and hares in the mountains; but indeed one needs to be a greyhound to catch them, and I am not so young as I was!

Who acts: one, I · What happens: be, catch, not be · To what, where: greyhound, mountains

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, I), 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	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	4 are	advmod
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 needs	cop
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 are	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 rabbits	case
7	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 plenty	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hares	cc
9	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rabbits	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 mountains	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mountains	det
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hares	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 needs	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 needs	cc
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 needs	nsubj
17	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	21 greyhound	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 greyhound	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 greyhound	det
21	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 needs	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 catch	mark
23	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 greyhound	acl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 catch	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 young	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 young	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 young	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 young	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 young	advmod
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 young	advmod
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 needs	conj
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 was	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 was	nsubj
34	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 young	advcl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 needs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	one		need property	tree rules
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	one not said here	a greyhound		tree rules
3	catch	to-infinitive	one not said here	mountains = mountain		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	not is	present	I		young property	tree rules
5	be	past	I			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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