The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 52

As the donkey went past, followed by the hare, he sprang out, and with one blow of his paw stretched the poor foolish creature dead before him.

Who acts: hare, paw · What happens: go past, follow, spring out, stretch, blow · To what, where: poor foolish creature

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, paw), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 donkey	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	past	past	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 followed	punct
7	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	parataxis
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 hare	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hare	det
10	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sprang	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sprang	nsubj
13	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 sprang	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stretched	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stretched	cc
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 blow	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 blow	nummod
19	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stretched	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 paw	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 paw	nmod:poss
22	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blow	nmod
23	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 creature	det
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 creature	amod
26	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 creature	amod
27	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stretched	obj
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stretched	advcl
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stretched	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go past	past				as the donkey; past property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow	participle				by the hare	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hare=Location
3	spring out	past	hare				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stretch	past		the poor foolish creature	before hare	with one blow of hare's paw	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent creature=Patient with blow=Instrument
5	blow		hare's paw				nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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