The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 112

I am going to break it,’ answered the little hare; but of course he had done it on purpose, as he wanted to fix Big Lion’s tail so firmly to the hut that he would not be able to move.

Who acts: I, hare · What happens: go, break, answer, do, want, fix · To what, where: branch, little hare, purpose, Big tail, hut · 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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 break	mark
5	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 break	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hare	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hare	amod
12	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 done	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 done	cc
15	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	19 done	advmod
16	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 of	fixed
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 answered	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 purpose	case
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 done	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wanted	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 wanted	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 wanted	nsubj
26	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fix	mark
28	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 wanted	xcomp
29	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 tail	compound
30	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Big	flat
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Lion	case
32	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fix	obj
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 firmly	advmod
34	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	37 hut	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 hut	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 hut	det
37	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wanted	obl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 able	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 able	nsubj
40	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 able	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 able	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 able	cop
43	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hut	acl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 move	mark
45	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 able	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break	to-infinitive	I not said here	branch				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	past	I not said here		the little hare			tree rules
4	do	past · perfect	hare	branch		purpose		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	want	past	hare				to the hut	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	fix not said to happen	to-infinitive	hare not said here	Big tail				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
7	not is	would	hare	the hut not said here			able property	tree rules
8	move	to-infinitive	hare not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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