The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 101
Then the little hare said to the other beasts, ‘Now, shut the gate of the Animal Kingdom.’
Who acts: little hare · What happens: say, shut · To what, where: little hare, other beasts, gate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 shut | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hare | amod |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shut | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hare | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 beasts | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beasts | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 beasts | amod |
| 9 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 12 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 shut | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Now | punct |
| 14 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gate | det |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shut | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Kingdom | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Kingdom | det |
| 19 | Animal | Animal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Kingdom | compound |
| 20 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gate | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | the little hare not said here | the other beasts | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to beast=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | shut | infinitive | the little hare | the gate of the Animal Kingdom | then; now | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gate=Patient |
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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