The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 104
But Big Lion kept all the choice bits for himself, and only gave away the little scraps that he did not care about eating; and the little hare grew very angry, and determined to have his revenge.
Who acts: Big Lion, lion, little hare, hare · What happens: keep, give away, not care, eat, grow, have · To what, where: choice bits, little scraps, revenge
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, lion, little hare, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 kept | cc |
| 2 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lion | compound |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 bits | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bits | det |
| 7 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bits | compound |
| 8 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 bits | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 gave | advmod |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADP | _ | 14 gave | compound:prt |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 scraps | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 scraps | amod |
| 18 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 care | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 care | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 care | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 care | advmod |
| 23 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gave | advcl |
| 24 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 25 eating | mark |
| 25 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 care | advcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 grew | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 grew | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hare | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hare | amod |
| 30 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grew | nsubj |
| 31 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 angry | advmod |
| 33 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grew | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 determined | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 determined | cc |
| 36 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grew | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 have | mark |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 determined | xcomp |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 40 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Big Lion | all choice bits | for lion | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | |||
| 2 | give away | past | Big Lion not said here | the little scraps | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not care | past · do-support | lion | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | lion not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | grow | past | the little hare | angry property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | the little hare not said here | hare's revenge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient | ||||
| 7 | revenge | hare | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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