The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 53

An hour or two later, thinking that no one was near him, he said to himself again, ‘It was really I who drank up the water, but I made them think it was the rabbit.’

Who acts: one, hare, stick, I, animals · What happens: think, be, say, drink up, make · To what, where: hare, I, water, animals, rabbit · 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 (one, hare, stick, 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hour	det
2	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 later	obl:unmarked
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 two	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hour	conj
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 said	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
7	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 said	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 him	mark
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 him	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 him	cop
12	near	near	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thinking	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 him	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 said	obl
19	again	again	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 drank	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 drank	punct
22	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 I	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 I	cop
24	really	really	ADV	_	25 I	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 drank	nsubj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 drank	nsubj
27	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 drank	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drank	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 made	cc
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 made	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	obj
36	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 made	xcomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 rabbit	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 rabbit	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rabbit	det
40	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 think	ccomp
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	no one				near hare	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	hare		hare	again	late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
4	is a	past	stick	I				tree rules
5	drink up	past	I	the water				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
6	make	past	I	animals = animal				tree rules
7	think speech: other	infinitive	animals = animal not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	stick	the rabbit				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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