The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 113
In a little while he gave another prick, and Big Lion called again, ‘What is pricking me so?’
Who acts: hare · What happens: give, call, prick · To what, where: prick, little, Big Lion, me · 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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gave | obl |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 gave | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 prick | det |
| 8 | prick | prick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 11 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Lion | compound |
| 12 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gave | conj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 called | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pricking | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 pricking | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 pricking | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pricking | aux |
| 19 | pricking | prick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gave | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pricking | obj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 pricking | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 pricking | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 pricking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | hare | another prick | a little | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prick=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle · passive | Big Lion | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | prick | present · progressive | me | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient |
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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