The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 16
‘Very soon the hare got up and said, “Well, as I have another engagement I will leave you to make acquaintance with your future husband,” and winking at the lion she bounded away.
Who acts: hare, donkey · What happens: get up, say, have, leave, make, wink · To what, where: engagement, you, acquaintance, lion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hare, donkey), 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 | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 got | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 got | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 12 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 21 leave | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Well | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | advcl |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 engagement | det |
| 18 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | aux |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 leave | advcl |
| 25 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 husband | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 husband | nmod:poss |
| 28 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 husband | amod |
| 29 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 winking | cc |
| 33 | winking | wink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | conj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 lion | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 lion | det |
| 36 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 winking | obl |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 bounded | nsubj |
| 38 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 lion | acl:relcl |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 bounded | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the hare | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the hare not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | the hare = hare | another engagement | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | future | the hare = hare | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | the hare = hare not said here | acquaintance | with your future husband | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product | |||
| 6 | wink | gerund | the hare not said here | at the lion | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | bound away | past | donkey | the lion not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location lion=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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