The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 71

When it was burning brightly the little hare said to the rabbit, ‘Rabbit, my friend, throw me into the fire, and when you hear my fur crackling, and I call “Itchi, Itchi,” then be quick and pull me out.’

Who acts: hole, you, fur, I · What happens: burn, say, throw, hear, crackle, call · To what, where: little hare, rabbit, me, fire, fur · 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 (hole, you, fur, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 burning	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burning	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burning	aux
4	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 throw	advcl
5	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	4 burning	advmod
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 burning	obj
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hare	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 rabbit	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rabbit	det
12	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Rabbit	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Rabbit	punct
15	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rabbit	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 friend	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friend	nmod:poss
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rabbit	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burning	punct
20	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 throw	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 throw	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 quick	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 quick	cc
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 hear	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 hear	nsubj
29	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 quick	advcl
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fur	nmod:poss
31	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hear	obj
32	crackling	crackle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 hear	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 call	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 call	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 call	nsubj
36	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 hear	conj
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 Itchi	punct
38	Itchi	Itchi	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 call	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Itchi	punct
40	Itchi	Itchi	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Itchi	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Itchi	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 Itchi	punct
43	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	45 quick	advmod
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 quick	cop
45	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 throw	parataxis
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 pull	cc
47	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 quick	conj
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 pull	obj
49	out	out	ADP	_	47 pull	compound:prt
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 throw	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	hole	the little hare			brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hare=Theme
2	say speech: assert	participle		the little hare not said here	the rabbit and Rabbit and my friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to rabbit=Recipient
3	throw	imperative	you not said here	me			into the fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into fire=Result
4	hear	present	you	my fur				tree rules
5	crackle	gerund	my fur not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	call	present	I					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	infinitive				then	quick property	tree rules
8	pull out	infinitive		me				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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