The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 57

The little hare saw that there was no use trying to hide it, so he answered pertly, ‘It was I who drank the water, but I made them think it was the rabbit.’

Who acts: little hare, use, hare, I, words · What happens: see, be, try, hide, answer, make · To what, where: use, words, 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 (little hare, use, hare, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 was	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	ccomp
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 use	det
9	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
10	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 use	acl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hide	mark
12	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 trying	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hide	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 answered	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 answered	nsubj
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
18	pertly	pertly	ADV	_	17 answered	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drank	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 drank	punct
21	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drank	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 drank	cop
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 drank	nsubj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 drank	nsubj
25	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 answered	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drank	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	obj
33	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 made	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 rabbit	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 rabbit	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rabbit	det
37	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 think	ccomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the little hare				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	past	no use		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	gerund	no use not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	no use not said here	use			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	answer speech: assert	past	hare			pertly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	use			drink property	tree rules
7	make	past	I	words = word			tree rules
8	think speech: other	infinitive	words = word not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a	past	use	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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