The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 71

“Better kill it first,” said the old man; and the hare listened, horribly frightened, but still looking secretly to see if there was no hole through which he could escape, if he had a chance of doing so.

Who acts: Better, old man, hare, hole, chance · What happens: kill, say, listen, frighten, look, see · To what, where: start, hole, chance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Better, old man, hare, hole), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
2	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 kill	nsubj
3	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kill	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 kill	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 kill	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 listened	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 listened	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hare	det
15	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 listened	nsubj
16	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 frightened	punct
18	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	19 frightened	advmod
19	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 listened	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looking	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 looking	cc
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 looking	advmod
23	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 frightened	advcl
24	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	23 looking	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 see	mark
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 looking	advcl
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 was	mark
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 see	ccomp
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 hole	det
31	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 was	nsubj
32	through	through	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 escape	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 escape	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 escape	aux
36	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 hole	acl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 had	punct
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 had	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 escape	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 chance	det
42	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obj
43	of	of	SCONJ	_	44 doing	mark
44	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 chance	acl
45	so	so	ADV	_	44 doing	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	infinitive	Better	start			first property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	listen	past	the hare					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	frighten	participle					horribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	look	gerund				still	secretly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	see	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no hole		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	escape	could	Hare		no hole			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location
9	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Hare	a chance				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
10	do	gerund	a chance not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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