The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 107
And when they had driven the stakes into the ground, and had made the walls of the hut, the little hare told Big Lion to climb upon the top while he stayed inside.
Who acts: head, little hare, walls, hare · What happens: drive, make, tell, climb, stay · To what, where: stakes, ground, walls, Big Lion, top · 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 (head, little hare, walls, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 driven | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 driven | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 driven | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 driven | aux |
| 5 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stakes | det |
| 7 | stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 driven | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 ground | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ground | det |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 driven | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 driven | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 walls | det |
| 16 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hut | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hut | det |
| 19 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 walls | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 told | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hare | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hare | amod |
| 23 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 told | nsubj |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 walls | acl:relcl |
| 25 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Lion | compound |
| 26 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 told | iobj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 climb | mark |
| 28 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 told | xcomp |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 top | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 top | det |
| 31 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 climb | obl |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 stayed | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 stayed | nsubj |
| 34 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 climb | advcl |
| 35 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 34 stayed | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · perfect | head | the stakes | the ground | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stake=Theme into ground=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | head not said here | the walls of the hut | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the little hare | the walls of the hut not said here | Big Lion | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | climb not said to happen | to-infinitive | the walls of the hut not said here | the top | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon top=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | stay | past | hare | inside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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