The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 103

When everything was tight closed the little hare turned to Big Lion and said ‘Now!’ and Big Lion bounded out of the ditch and tore the other animals in pieces.

Who acts: Big Lion · What happens: close, turn, say, bound, tore · To what, where: everything, little hare, Big Lion, ditch, other animals, pieces · 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 (Big Lion), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 closed	mark
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 closed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 closed	aux:pass
4	tight	tight	ADV	_	5 closed	advmod
5	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hare	amod
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closed	obj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hare	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Lion	case
11	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lion	compound
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Now	punct
16	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 said	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bounded	cc
20	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Lion	compound
21	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 bounded	nsubj
22	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 ditch	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 ditch	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ditch	det
26	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bounded	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tore	cc
28	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 bounded	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 animals	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 animals	amod
31	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tore	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 pieces	case
33	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tore	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past · passive		everything				tight property	tree rules
2	turn	participle		the little hare not said here	Big Lion				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lion=Result
3	say speech: assert	past					now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bound	past	Big Lion			the ditch			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out ditch=Trajectory
5	tore	past	Big Lion not said here	the other animals		pieces			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 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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