The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 78
The moment the rabbit felt the flames he cried out ‘Itchi, Itchi, I am burning; pull me out quick, my friend!’
Who acts: moment, rabbit, I · What happens: feel, cry out, burn, pull out · To what, where: flames, Itchi, me
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 (moment, rabbit, 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 | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rabbit | det |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flames | det |
| 7 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 felt | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 flames | acl:relcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cried | compound:prt |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Itchi | punct |
| 12 | Itchi | Itchi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Itchi | punct |
| 14 | Itchi | Itchi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Itchi | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 burning | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 burning | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 burning | aux |
| 18 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 Itchi | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 pull | punct |
| 20 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 felt | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 pull | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 pull | compound:prt |
| 23 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pull | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 friend | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 friend | nmod:poss |
| 26 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pull | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 pull | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the moment | the flames | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | rabbit | Itchi and Itchi | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Topic | ||||
| 3 | burn | present · progressive | I | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | pull out | infinitive | the moment not said here | 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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