The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 116

The Governor saw it too, but said, ‘Oh, let it go! it’s no use to think of catching a hare when it’s running away.’

Who acts: Governor, kitchen, it · What happens: see, say, let, go, be, think · To what, where: kitchen, use, hare · 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: who acts (Governor, kitchen, it), 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	2 Governor	det
2	Governor	Governor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 saw	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
11	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	13 let	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Oh	punct
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 use	csubj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 use	nsubj
18	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 use	cop
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 use	det
20	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 think	mark
22	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 use	acl
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 catching	mark
24	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 think	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hare	det
26	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 catching	obj
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 running	advmod
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 running	nsubj
29	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 running	aux
30	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 catching	conj
31	away	away	ADV	_	30 running	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 use	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Governor	kitchen		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Governor not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	let	infinitive		kitchen		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	kitchen not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	it	no use		tree rules
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the Governor not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	catch	gerund	the Governor not said here	a hare		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme
8	run away	present · progressive	kitchen		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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