The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 70

So they dug a hole, and then the little hare said, ‘The next thing is to make a fire in the hole,’ and they set to work to collect wood, and lit quite a large fire.

Who acts: streams, little hare, next thing · What happens: dig, say, be, set, work, collect · To what, where: hole, wood, large fire · 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 (streams, little hare, next thing), 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	_	3 dug	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dug	nsubj
3	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dug	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 said	advmod
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 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
15	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 thing	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 make	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 make	mark
20	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fire	det
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hole	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hole	det
25	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 make	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 make	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 set	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 set	nsubj
30	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 work	mark
32	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 set	xcomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 collect	mark
34	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 work	advcl
35	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 collect	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lit	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 lit	cc
38	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dug	conj
39	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	42 fire	det:predet
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 fire	det
41	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fire	amod
42	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 lit	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	streams = stream	a hole				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the little hare			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	present	the next thing		the hole		make property	tree rules
4	set	present	streams = stream					tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	streams = stream not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	collect	to-infinitive	streams = stream not said here	wood				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
7	light	past	streams = stream not said here	quite large fire				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product

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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