The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 60
They found the poor imprisoned little Hare, and having set him free also, they all set out to look for their enemy.
Who acts: pieces · What happens: find, have, set, set out, look · To what, where: poor imprisoned little Hare, hare
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 (pieces), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hare | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hare | amod |
| 5 | imprisoned | imprisoned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hare | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hare | amod |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 set | reparandum |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 set | xcomp |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 free | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | nsubj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 set | advmod |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 look | mark |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 set | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 enemy | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 look | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | pieces = piece | the poor imprisoned little Hare | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | set | past | pieces = piece not said here | hare | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result | |||
| 4 | set out | past | pieces = piece | all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | pieces = piece not said here | for pieces's enemy | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for enemy=Theme |
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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