The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 103

Now the lion had been very ill, and was not strong enough to go hunting for himself, and when the hare came and told him that a very fat donkey was to be found only a few hundred yards off, tears of disappointment and weakness filled his eyes.

Who acts: lion, hare, tears · What happens: be, not be, go, hunt, come, tell · To what, where: hare, fat donkey, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lion, hare, tears), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 ill	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ill	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 ill	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 ill	advmod
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 strong	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 strong	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 strong	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 strong	advmod
12	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ill	conj
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 strong	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 strong	advcl
16	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 go	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 hunting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 came	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hare	det
23	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	iobj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 found	mark
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 donkey	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 fat	advmod
31	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 donkey	amod
32	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 found	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 found	aux:pass
34	to	to	PART	_	36 found	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 found	aux:pass
36	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 told	ccomp
37	only	only	ADV	_	41 yards	advmod
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 yards	det
39	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 yards	amod
40	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 yards	nummod
41	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 off	obl
42	off	off	ADV	_	36 found	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 tears	punct
44	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 filled	nsubj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 disappointment	case
46	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tears	nmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 weakness	cc
48	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 disappointment	conj
49	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 came	parataxis
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 eyes	nmod:poss
51	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 filled	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the lion			now	ill property	tree rules
2	not is	past	the lion not said here				enough, strong property	tree rules
3	go	to-infinitive	the lion not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hunt	gerund	the lion not said here				for friend	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for himself=Theme
5	come	past	the hare					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	the hare not said here		hare			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	find not said to happen	past · passive		a fat donkey			off property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
8	fill	past	tears of disappointment and weakness	hare's eyes				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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