The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 44

Then he smeared the dirty water all over the rabbit’s face and paws, so that it might look as if it were he who had been disobeying Big Lion’s orders.

Who acts: hare, it, water, Big Lion · What happens: smear, look, be, disobey, order · To what, where: dirty water, face, hare, orders

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, it, water, Big Lion), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 smeared	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smeared	nsubj
3	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smeared	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	12 face	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	12 face	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rabbit	det
10	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 face	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 rabbit	case
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smeared	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 paws	cc
14	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 face	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 look	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 look	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 look	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 look	aux
20	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smeared	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 disobeying	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 disobeying	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 he	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 he	cop
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 disobeying	nsubj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 disobeying	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 disobeying	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 disobeying	aux
29	disobeying	disobey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 look	advcl
30	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Lion	compound
31	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 orders	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Lion	case
33	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 disobeying	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	smear	past	hare	the dirty water	the rabbit's face and paws	then	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme over face=Destination
2	look	might	it				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	past	water	hare			tree rules
4	disobey	past · perfect · progressive	hare	Big Lion's orders			tree rules
5	order		Big Lion				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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