The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 105
He had long ago found out that Big Lion was very easily taken in; so he laid his plans accordingly.
Who acts: hare · What happens: have, find out, take in, lay, plan · To what, where: Big, plans
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 found | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 found | advmod |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 found | compound:prt |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 taken | mark |
| 8 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Big | flat |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 easily | advmod |
| 12 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 13 taken | advmod |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 found | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 taken | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 laid | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 laid | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 laid | nsubj |
| 18 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 plans | nmod:poss |
| 20 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 laid | obj |
| 21 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 18 laid | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | hare | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find out | participle | hare not said here | ago, long property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take in | past · passive | Big | easily property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | lay | past | hare | hare's plans | accordingly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result | |||
| 5 | plan | hare | nom plan «cognition 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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