The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 108

When he was ready he called out, ‘Now, grandfather, begin,’ and Big Lion passed his rod through the reeds with which the roofs are always covered in that country.

Who acts: hare, grandfather · What happens: be, call out, begin, pass, cover · To what, where: rod, reeds, roofs

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, grandfather), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ready	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ready	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 called	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grandfather	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 grandfather	punct
10	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 grandfather	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grandfather	punct
12	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 passed	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begin	punct
14	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 grandfather	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begin	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 begin	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Big	cc
18	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 grandfather	conj
19	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Big	flat
20	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rod	nmod:poss
22	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 passed	obj
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 reeds	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 reeds	det
25	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 passed	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 covered	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 roofs	det
29	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 covered	nsubj:pass
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 covered	aux:pass
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 covered	advmod
32	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 reeds	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 country	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 country	det
35	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 covered	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	hare			ready property	tree rules
2	call out speech: assert	participle	hare				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	infinitive					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	pass	past	grandfather and Big	hare's rod	the reeds		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent rod=Theme through reed=Destination
5	cover	present · passive		the roofs		with the reeds; in that country; always property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in country=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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