The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 44

‘“I mustn’t stay,” answered the hare; “but I promised the lion to beg you to pay him a visit, as he is not well enough to call on you.”

Who acts: hare, lion · What happens: not stay, answer, promise, beg, pay, not be · To what, where: lion, you · 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, lion), 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	_	9 answered	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 stay	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stay	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 stay	advmod
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 stay	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hare	det
11	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 promised	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 promised	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 promised	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 promised	nsubj
16	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lion	det
18	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 promised	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 beg	mark
20	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 promised	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 beg	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pay	mark
23	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 beg	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pay	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 visit	det
26	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pay	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 enough	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 enough	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 enough	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 enough	cop
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 enough	advmod
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 enough	advmod
33	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 promised	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 call	mark
35	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 enough	advcl
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 call	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	not stay in a quote	must	the hare = hare			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	the hare			tree rules
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	the hare = hare	the lion		vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient clause=Topic
4	beg speech: request not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		you		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
5	pay in a quote	to-infinitive		lion		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset
6	not is in a quote	present	lion		enough, well property	tree rules
7	call in a quote	to-infinitive	lion not said here		on you	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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