The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 52

The little Hare obeyed, and when it had run twenty times round the tree, the cord had twisted itself twenty times round the trunk, so that the poor little beast was held a fast prisoner, and it might bite and tear as much as it liked, it couldn’t free itself, and the cord only cut its tender neck.

Who acts: little Hare, tree, cord · What happens: obey, run, twist, hold, bite, tear · To what, where: tree, cord, poor little beast, much, tender neck

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Hare, tree, cord), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hare	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Hare	amod
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 obeyed	nsubj
4	obeyed	obey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 run	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 run	cc
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 run	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 run	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 run	aux
10	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 obeyed	conj
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 times	nummod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 run	obl:unmarked
13	round	round	ADP	_	15 tree	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 run	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 twisted	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cord	det
18	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 twisted	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 twisted	aux
20	twisted	twist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 run	conj
21	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 twisted	obj
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 times	nummod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 twisted	obl:unmarked
24	round	round	ADP	_	26 trunk	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trunk	det
26	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 twisted	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 held	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	_	35 held	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 held	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beast	det
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beast	amod
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beast	amod
33	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 held	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 held	aux:pass
35	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 twisted	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 prisoner	det
37	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 prisoner	amod
38	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 held	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 bite	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bite	cc
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 bite	nsubj
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 bite	aux
43	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 obeyed	advcl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 tear	cc
45	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 bite	conj
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 much	advmod
47	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tear	obj
48	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 liked	mark
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 liked	nsubj
50	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 much	advcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 free	punct
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 free	nsubj
53	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 free	aux
54	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 free	advmod
55	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 obeyed	parataxis
56	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	55 free	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 cut	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 cut	cc
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 cord	det
60	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 cut	nsubj
61	only	only	ADV	_	62 cut	advmod
62	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 obeyed	parataxis
63	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 neck	nmod:poss
64	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 neck	amod
65	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 cut	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 obeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obey	past	the little Hare					vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	run	past · perfect · passive		tree	the tree	time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme round tree=Trajectory
3	twist	past · perfect · passive		the cord		time	round the trunk	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme itself=Result
4	hold	past · passive		the poor little beast				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	bite	might	tree					vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	tear	infinitive	tree not said here	much				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location much=Theme
7	like	past	tree					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	cut	past	the cord	tree's tender neck				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset neck=Product

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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