The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 50

Now the little hare was very much pleased with his cleverness in causing the rabbit to be beaten instead of himself, and went about boasting of it.

Who acts: little hare, cleverness · What happens: be, cause, beat, go, boast · To what, where: rabbit

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, cleverness), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 pleased	advmod
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	8 pleased	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pleased	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 pleased	advmod
8	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 cleverness	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cleverness	nmod:poss
11	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pleased	obl
12	in	in	SCONJ	_	13 causing	mark
13	causing	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cleverness	acl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 rabbit	det
15	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 causing	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 beaten	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 beaten	aux:pass
18	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 rabbit	acl
19	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	21 himself	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 instead	fixed
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 beaten	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pleased	conj
25	about	about	SCONJ	_	26 boasting	mark
26	boasting	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 went	advcl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 boasting	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the little hare		now	with hare's cleverness; pleased property	tree rules
2	cause	gerund	hare's cleverness not said here	the rabbit			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rabbit=Patient
3	beat	to-infinitive · passive	hare's cleverness not said here	the rabbit not said here		instead rabbit	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»
4	go	past	the little hare not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	boast speech: other	gerund	the little hare not said here			of cleverness	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=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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