The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 109

The little hare took it and cried, ‘Now it is my turn to pierce them,’ and as he spoke he passed the rod back through the reeds and gave Big Lion’s tail a sharp poke.

Who acts: little hare, rod, hare · What happens: take, cry, be, pierce, speak, pass · To what, where: rod, turn, roofs, tail · 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 (little hare, rod, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cried	cc
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 turn	punct
10	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 turn	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 turn	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 turn	cop
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 turn	nmod:poss
14	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pierce	mark
16	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 turn	acl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pierce	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 spoke	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 spoke	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 spoke	nsubj
23	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 passed	nsubj
25	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 spoke	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rod	det
27	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 passed	obj
28	back	back	ADV	_	25 passed	advmod
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 reeds	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 reeds	det
31	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 back	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 gave	cc
33	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 passed	conj
34	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Lion	compound
35	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 tail	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 Lion	case
37	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 poke	det
39	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 poke	amod
40	poke	poke	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gave	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	take	past	the little hare	rod		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the little hare not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	rod	my turn	now	tree rules
4	pierce	to-infinitive	the little hare not said here	roofs = roof		vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	speak speech: other	past	hare			tree rules
6	pass	past	hare	the rod		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rod=Trajectory
7	give	past	hare not said here	Big Lion's tail		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tail=Recipient poke=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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