The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 94

The little hare received them and said, ‘Pass on, this way to the lion.’

Who acts: little hare · What happens: receive, say, pass on · To what, where: animals, way · 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 received	nsubj
4	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 received	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 received	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Pass	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Pass	punct
10	Pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 Pass	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Pass	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 lion	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lion	det
17	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 way	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 Pass	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 Pass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	receive	past	the little hare	animals = animal	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the little hare not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pass on	infinitive		this way to the lion	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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