The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 117

It was not long before the youth let another hare out, and the people in the kitchen saw this too, and thought that it was the same.

Who acts: kitchen, people · What happens: be, hare out, see, think · To what, where: this · 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 (kitchen, people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 let	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 youth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obl
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 let	obj
10	hare	hare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 hare	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 saw	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 kitchen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kitchen	det
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 people	nmod
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 let	parataxis
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 saw	obj
21	too	too	ADV	_	19 saw	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thought	cc
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 same	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 same	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 same	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 same	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 thought	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	kitchen		before the youth	let, long property	tree rules
2	hare out	infinitive	kitchen not said here				tree rules
3	see	past	the people in the kitchen	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	the people in the kitchen not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	kitchen			same property	tree rules

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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