The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 32

He was beginning to think that it was almost time for him to begin hunting again, when one morning a rustle was heard in the creepers outside, and the hare’s head peeped through.

Who acts: lion, illness, head · What happens: begin, think, be, hunt, hear, peep · To what, where: time, rustle, creepers · 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 (lion, illness, head), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beginning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beginning	aux
3	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 think	mark
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 beginning	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 time	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 time	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 time	cop
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 time	advmod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	ccomp
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 begin	mark
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begin	nsubj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 begin	mark
14	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 time	advcl
15	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 begin	xcomp
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 hunting	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 heard	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 heard	advmod
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 morning	nummod
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	obl:unmarked
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rustle	det
22	rustle	rustle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heard	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	aux:pass
24	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 hunting	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 creepers	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 creepers	det
27	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heard	obl
28	outside	outside	ADV	_	24 heard	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 peeped	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 peeped	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hare	det
32	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 head	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 hare	case
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 peeped	nsubj
35	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 heard	conj
36	through	through	ADV	_	35 peeped	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 beginning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past · progressive	lion					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	lion not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	illness	time			almost property	tree rules
4	begin	to-infinitive	lion					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	hunt	gerund	lion not said here			again		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hear	past · passive		a rustle	the creepers	morning	outside property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
7	peep	past	the hare's head				through property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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