The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 61
When the last tail was out of sight the little hare crept cautiously out, and the first person he met was the rabbit.
Who acts: last tail, little hare, hare, first person · What happens: be, creep, meet · To what, where: sight, first person, rabbit
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 (last tail, little hare, hare, first person), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 sight | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tail | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tail | amod |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sight | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crept | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hare | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hare | amod |
| 11 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crept | nsubj |
| 12 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 14 out | advmod |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 crept | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rabbit | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rabbit | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 person | amod |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rabbit | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 met | nsubj |
| 21 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 person | acl:relcl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 rabbit | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rabbit | det |
| 24 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crept | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the last tail | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | creep | past | the little hare | out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | hare | the first person not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the first person | 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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