The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 1
This time the little hare said to himself, ‘He will find out what I am at.
Who acts: hare · What happens: say, find out · To what, where: little hare, hare · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hare | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hare | amod |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hare | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 11 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hare | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 find | compound:prt |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 at | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 at | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 at | cop |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 find | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | participle | the little hare not said here | hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | find out | future | hare | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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