The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 49
The rabbit, frightened out of his wits, tried to deny the fact, exclaiming, ‘Oh, no, indeed I never did;’ but Big Lion would not listen, and commanded them to cane him with a birch rod.
Who acts: rabbit, I, Big Lion · What happens: frighten, try, deny, exclaim, not do, ' · To what, where: rabbit, wits, fact · 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 (rabbit, I, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rabbit | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 wits | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wits | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wits | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frightened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rabbit | punct |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 deny | mark |
| 12 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fact | det |
| 14 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 deny | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 exclaiming | punct |
| 16 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tried | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ’ | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 ’ | punct |
| 19 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 28 ’ | discourse |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Oh | punct |
| 21 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 Oh | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Oh | punct |
| 23 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 19 Oh | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 did | advmod |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Oh | acl:relcl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Oh | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 exclaiming | conj |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 listen | cc |
| 30 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Lion | compound |
| 31 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 listen | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 listen | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 listen | advmod |
| 34 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 ’ | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 commanded | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 commanded | cc |
| 37 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tried | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 commanded | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 cane | mark |
| 40 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 commanded | obj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 cane | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 rod | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 rod | det |
| 44 | birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 rod | compound |
| 45 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 commanded | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | participle | the rabbit not said here | rabbit's wits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the rabbit | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | deny not said to happen | to-infinitive | the rabbit not said here | the fact | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent fact=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not do | past | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | ' | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | not listen | would | Big Lion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | command | past | the rabbit not said here | wits = wit | with a birch rod | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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