The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 51
At last one of the other animals overheard him, and called out, ‘Little hare, little hare! what is that you are saying?’
Who acts: other animals, you · What happens: overhear, call out, be · To what, where: rabbit, Little hare
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 (other animals, you), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overheard | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 animals | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animals | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animals | amod |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 overheard | nsubj |
| 8 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 overheard | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 overheard | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 called | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hare | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 hare | punct |
| 16 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hare | amod |
| 17 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hare | punct |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hare | amod |
| 20 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hare | appos |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 saying | obj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 saying | cop |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 saying | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 saying | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 saying | aux |
| 27 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 overheard | ccomp |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 overheard | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 overheard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | past | the other animals | rabbit | at last one | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | Little hare | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present · progressive | you | say property | 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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