The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 120

The people in the kitchen saw this too, and believed that it was still the same hare that was running about, so they wanted to go out and catch it.

Who acts: people, kitchen, same hare · What happens: see, believe, be, run about, want, go out · To what, where: this, same hare, 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: who acts (people, kitchen, same hare), 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 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saw	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 kitchen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kitchen	det
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 people	nmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 saw	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	6 saw	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 believed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 believed	cc
11	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 hare	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 hare	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hare	cop
15	still	still	ADV	_	18 hare	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hare	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hare	amod
18	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 believed	ccomp
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 running	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 running	aux
21	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 hare	acl:relcl
22	about	about	ADV	_	21 running	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wanted	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 wanted	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wanted	nsubj
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wanted	xcomp
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 catch	cc
31	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 catch	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the people in the kitchen	this			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	believe	past					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	kitchen	the same hare	still		tree rules
4	run about	past · progressive	the same hare			about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	want	past	people				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here			out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	catch	infinitive	people not said here	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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