The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 101

‘One day as she was tasting quite a new kind of grass and wondering if it was as good as what she had had for dinner the day before, a hare happened to pass by.

Who acts: beast, kind, hare · What happens: taste, wonder, be, have, happen, pass by · To what, where: new kind

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beast, kind, hare), 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	_	7 tasting	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tasting	obl:unmarked
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 tasting	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tasting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tasting	aux
7	tasting	taste	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	11 kind	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kind	det
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kind	amod
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tasting	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 grass	case
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kind	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wondering	cc
15	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 tasting	conj
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 good	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 good	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 good	cop
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 good	advmod
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wondering	ccomp
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 what	case
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 good	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 had	aux
25	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 what	acl:relcl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 dinner	case
27	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl:unmarked
30	before	before	ADV	_	25 had	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 happened	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hare	det
33	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 happened	nsubj
34	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tasting	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 pass	mark
36	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 happened	xcomp
37	by	by	ADP	_	36 pass	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tasting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past · progressive	beast	quite new kind of grass	day		vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme kind=Attribute
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	beast not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	kind			good property	tree rules
4	have	past · perfect	beast		day	for dinner; before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	happen	past	a hare				tree rules
6	pass by	to-infinitive	a hare not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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