The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 43

But the little hare, who was fond of having his own way, and was very thirsty besides, stole quietly off when all the rest were asleep in their dens, and crept down to the margin of the lake and drank his fill.

Who acts: little hare, rest · What happens: be, have, steal, creep down, drink · To what, where: own way, thirsty besides, dens, margin, fill

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, rest), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	21 stole	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hare	amod
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stole	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fond	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fond	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fond	cop
8	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hare	acl:relcl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 having	mark
10	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fond	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 way	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 having	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 besides	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 besides	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 besides	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 thirsty	advmod
18	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 besides	amod
19	besides	beside	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 having	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stole	punct
21	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	23 off	advmod
23	off	off	ADV	_	21 stole	advmod
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 asleep	mark
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 rest	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rest	det
27	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 asleep	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 asleep	cop
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stole	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 dens	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 dens	nmod:poss
32	dens	den	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 asleep	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 crept	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 crept	cc
35	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stole	parataxis
36	down	down	ADV	_	35 crept	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 margin	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 margin	det
39	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 crept	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 lake	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 lake	det
42	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 margin	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 drank	cc
44	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 crept	conj
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 fill	nmod:poss
46	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 drank	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little hare			fond property	tree rules
2	have	gerund	the little hare not said here	hare's own way			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
3	is a	past		thirsty besides			tree rules
4	steal	past	the little hare			off property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	all rest		besides's dens	asleep property	tree rules
6	creep down	past			the margin of the lake	down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to margin=Destination
7	drink	past		hare's fill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=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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