The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 52
But the little hare hastily replied, ‘I only asked you to pass me my stick.’
Who acts: I · What happens: reply, ask, pass · To what, where: little hare, you, stick, me
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 (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 replied | cc |
| 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 | 6 replied | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 6 replied | advmod |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 asked | advmod |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 pass | mark |
| 14 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 pass | obj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 stick | nmod:poss |
| 17 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pass | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle · passive | the little hare | hastily property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | I | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pass not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my stick | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient stick=Theme |
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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