The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 13

It took a long while, for the donkey was so fat with eating she could only walk very slowly, and the hare, who could have run the distance in about five minutes, was obliged to creep along till she almost dropped with fatigue at not being able to go at her own pace.

Who acts: It, donkey, hare · What happens: take, be, eat, walk, run, oblige · To what, where: distance, hare

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (It, donkey, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 while	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 while	amod
5	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fat	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 fat	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 donkey	det
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fat	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fat	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 fat	advmod
12	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 took	conj
13	with	with	SCONJ	_	14 eating	mark
14	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 fat	advcl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 walk	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 walk	aux
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 walk	advmod
18	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 eating	ccomp
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 slowly	advmod
20	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	18 walk	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 obliged	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 obliged	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hare	det
24	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 obliged	nsubj:pass
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 run	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 run	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 run	aux
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 run	aux
29	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 hare	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 distance	det
31	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 run	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 minutes	case
33	about	about	ADV	_	34 five	advmod
34	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 minutes	nummod
35	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 run	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hare	punct
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 obliged	aux:pass
38	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 creep	mark
40	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 obliged	xcomp
41	along	along	ADV	_	40 creep	advmod
42	till	till	SCONJ	_	45 dropped	mark
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 dropped	nsubj
44	almost	almost	ADV	_	45 dropped	advmod
45	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 creep	advcl
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 fatigue	case
47	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dropped	obl
48	at	at	ADP	_	51 able	case
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 able	advmod
50	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 able	cop
51	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 dropped	obl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 go	mark
53	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 able	xcomp
54	at	at	ADP	_	57 pace	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 pace	nmod:poss
56	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 pace	amod
57	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 go	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It		while		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the donkey			fat property	tree rules
3	eat	gerund	the donkey not said here				tree rules
4	walk	could	donkey			slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	could · perfect	the hare	the distance	minute		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory
6	oblige	past · passive		the hare			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
7	creep	to-infinitive				along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	drop	past	donkey			with fatigue; almost property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	not is	gerund				able property	tree rules
10	go	to-infinitive				at donkey's own pace	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at pace=Location

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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