The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 115
‘Just look at that hare,’ said the people in the kitchen, and wanted to go out and catch it.
What happens: look, say, want, go out, catch · To what, where: people, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 hare | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hare | det |
| 6 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 kitchen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kitchen | det |
| 14 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wanted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wanted | cc |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wanted | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 catch | cc |
| 22 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 go | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 catch | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | at that hare | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hare=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the people | the kitchen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | past | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | catch | infinitive | kitchen | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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