The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 72

The rabbit did as he was told, and threw the little hare into the fire; but no sooner did the little hare begin to feel the heat of the flames than he took some green bay leaves he had plucked for the purpose and held them in the middle of the fire, where they crackled and made a great noise.

Who acts: rabbit, green bay, flames · What happens: tell, throw, begin, feel, take, leave · To what, where: rabbit, little hare, fire, heat, flames, middle · 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 (rabbit, green bay, flames), 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	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 begin	aux
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 threw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 threw	cc
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hare	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hare	amod
13	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 fire	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 did	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 did	cc
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 sooner	advmod
20	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 did	advmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 begin	aux
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hare	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 hare	amod
24	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 did	obj
25	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	to	to	PART	_	27 feel	mark
27	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 begin	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heat	det
29	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feel	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 flames	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 flames	det
32	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 heat	nmod
33	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 took	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 took	nsubj
35	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 feel	advcl
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 bay	det
37	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 bay	amod
38	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 leaves	nsubj
39	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 took	ccomp
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 plucked	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 plucked	aux
42	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 leaves	ccomp
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 purpose	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 purpose	det
45	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 plucked	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 held	cc
47	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 plucked	conj
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 held	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 middle	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 middle	det
51	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 held	obl
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 fire	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 fire	det
54	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 middle	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 crackled	punct
56	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	58 crackled	advmod
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 crackled	nsubj
58	crackled	crackle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 fire	acl:relcl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 made	cc
60	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 crackled	conj
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 noise	det
62	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 noise	amod
63	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 made	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 begin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive		rabbit			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	throw	past		the little hare		into the fire result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer hare=Theme into fire=Result
3	begin	past · do-support					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	feel	to-infinitive		the heat of the flames			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
5	take	past	rabbit				vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
6	leave	present	some green bay				tree rules
7	pluck	past · perfect	rabbit			for the purpose	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for purpose=Beneficiary
8	hold	past	rabbit not said here	flames = flame	the middle of the fire		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in middle=Location
9	crackle	past	flames = flame				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	make	past	flames = flame not said here	a great noise			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
11	heat		the flames				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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