The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 47

‘Who has been drinking my water?’ said he; and the little hare gave a jump, and, pointing to the rabbit, he answered, ‘Look there! it must be he!

Who acts: lion, little hare, water · What happens: drink, say, give, point, answer, look · To what, where: water, jump, rabbit, lion · 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 (lion, little hare, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg5615:3441): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 drinking	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	5 drinking	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drinking	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 drinking	aux
5	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 water	nmod:poss
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drinking	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 drinking	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 drinking	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hare	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hare	amod
16	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 jump	det
19	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pointing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pointing	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pointing	punct
23	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 answered	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 rabbit	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rabbit	det
26	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pointing	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pointing	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 answered	nsubj
29	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Look	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 Look	punct
32	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 answered	ccomp
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 Look	advmod
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 Look	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 he	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 he	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 he	cop
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 Look	parataxis
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 he	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	drink	present · perfect · progressive		my water			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	lion				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	past	the little hare	a jump			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme
4	point	gerund	lion not said here		the rabbit		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rabbit=Recipient
5	answer speech: assert	past	lion				tree rules
6	look	infinitive				there	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	is a	must	water	lion			tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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