The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 56
So Big Lion sent for the little hare, and asked him what he meant by talking like that.
Who acts: Big Lion, hare · What happens: send, ask, mean, talk · To what, where: hare · 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 (Big Lion, hare), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 2 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Lion | compound |
| 3 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hare | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hare | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hare | amod |
| 8 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 meant | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 meant | nsubj |
| 15 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 talking | mark |
| 17 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 meant | advcl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 that | case |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 talking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Big Lion | for the little hare | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Big Lion not said here | hare | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mean | past | hare | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | hare not said here | like that | vn talk-37.5 «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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