The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 22

‘Now the hare, who knew quite well what would happen, had not gone to do her business, but hid herself in some bushes behind the cave, where she could hear quite clearly the sounds of the battle.

Who acts: hare, donkey · What happens: know, happen, not go, do, hide, hear · To what, where: business, donkey, bushes, sounds · 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	_	4 hare	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hare	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knew	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hare	acl:relcl
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 knew	advmod
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happen	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 happen	aux
12	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 knew	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hare	punct
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 gone	advmod
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gone	xcomp
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 business	nmod:poss
20	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hid	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 hid	cc
23	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	conj
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 hid	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 bushes	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 bushes	det
27	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hid	obl
28	behind	behind	ADP	_	30 cave	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cave	det
30	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hid	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hear	punct
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 hear	advmod
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 hear	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 hear	aux
35	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 cave	conj
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	37 clearly	advmod
37	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	39 sounds	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sounds	det
39	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hear	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 battle	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 battle	det
42	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 sounds	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	the hare			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not go	past · perfect	the hare				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	to-infinitive	the hare not said here	donkey's business			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Eventuality
5	hide	past	the hare not said here	donkey	some bushes	behind the cave	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in bush=Location
6	hear	could	donkey	the sounds of the battle			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

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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