The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 87
When he got tired of going through the world singing this the little hare went back to his friends and entered the service of Big Lion.
Who acts: pii, little hare · What happens: get, go, sing, go back, enter, service · To what, where: world, this, service, Big Lion
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 (pii, 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 | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 tired | obl |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obl |
| 10 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 went | csubj |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 singing | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hare | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hare | amod |
| 14 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 friends | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friends | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 back | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 entered | cc |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 service | det |
| 23 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 entered | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Lion | case |
| 25 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Lion | compound |
| 26 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 service | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | pii | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | pii not said here | the world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through world=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | this | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location this=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go back | past | the little hare | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | enter | past | the little hare not said here | the service of Big Lion | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination | ||||
| 6 | service | Big Lion | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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