The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 84

When the fire was quite out the little hare went and picked up one of these bones, and made a flute out of it, and sang this song:

Who acts: fire, little hare · What happens: be, go, pick up, make, sing · To what, where: one, flute, fire, song

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 (fire, little hare), 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	6 out	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 out	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hare	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hare	amod
9	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 picked	cc
12	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 picked	compound:prt
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 picked	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 bones	case
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 bones	det
17	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 made	cc
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 flute	det
22	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	25 it	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 made	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sang	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sang	cc
28	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 song	det
30	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sang	obj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fire			out property	tree rules
2	go	past	the little hare				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pick up	past	the little hare not said here	one of this bones			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
4	make	past	the little hare not said here	a flute	fire		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flute=Product
5	sing speech: express	past	the little hare not said here	this song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

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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