The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 117

It was so nice out in the wood, when the snow lay all around, and the hare leapt past me; yes, even when he leapt over me: but I didn’t like it then.

Who acts: ground, snow, hare, I · What happens: be, lie, leapt, not like · To what, where: wood, ground

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground, snow, hare, I), 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	4 nice	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 nice	advmod
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 nice	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nice	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 lay	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	parataxis
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 around	advmod
15	around	around	ADV	_	13 lay	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 leapt	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 leapt	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hare	det
19	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leapt	nsubj
20	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	conj
21	past	past	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 leapt	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 yes	punct
24	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 nice	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 leapt	punct
26	even	even	ADV	_	29 leapt	advmod
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 leapt	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 leapt	nsubj
29	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nice	conj
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 leapt	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 like	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 like	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 like	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 like	aux
36	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 like	advmod
37	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nice	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 like	obj
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 like	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	ground		the wood		nice, out property	tree rules
2	lie	past	the snow				around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	leapt	past	the hare				past me	tree rules
4	leapt	past	snow				over me	tree rules
5	not like	past · do-support	I	ground		then		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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