The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 59
‘“But there is no heart,” answered the hare, looking up at the lion with a puzzled face.
Who acts: heart, hare · What happens: be, answer, look up, puzzle · 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 (heart, 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 | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 3 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 is | cc |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hare | det |
| 12 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 answered | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 looking | compound:prt |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 lion | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lion | det |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 face | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 face | det |
| 21 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 face | amod |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lion | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no heart | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the hare | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look up | gerund | the hare not said here | at the lion with a puzzled face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | puzzle | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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