The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 36

‘“If you will bring me that donkey I will tear it in two,” cried the lion savagely, and the hare laughed and nodded and went on her errand.

Who acts: you, donkey, lion, hare · What happens: bring, tear, cry, laugh, nod, go · To what, where: lion, dinner, two, errand · 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 (you, donkey, lion, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
3	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 bring	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 bring	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bring	aux
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 cried	parataxis
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bring	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 tear	mark
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tear	nsubj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tear	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 tear	aux
12	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bring	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tear	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 two	case
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 tear	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lion	det
20	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obj
21	savagely	savagely	ADV	_	18 cried	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 laughed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 laughed	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hare	det
25	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 laughed	nsubj
26	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cried	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 nodded	cc
28	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 laughed	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 nodded	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 errand	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 errand	nmod:poss
33	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you		the lion = lion			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	tear in a quote	future	donkey	dinner		two		tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	the lion				savagely property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	laugh	past	the hare					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	nod	past	the hare not said here					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	past	the hare not said here			donkey's errand		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=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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