The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 12
The little hare bounded with terror at the noise, for he thought Big Lion must have come to life again; but on discovering what had happened he set about cleaning the skin, and propped the mouth open with sticks so that he could get through.
Who acts: little hare, Big Lion, Lion · What happens: bound, think, come, discover, happen, set · To what, where: little hare, noise, life, skin, mouth · 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 (little hare, Big Lion, Lion), 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 | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | bounded | bound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hare | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 terror | case |
| 6 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bounded | obl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 noise | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 noise | det |
| 9 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bounded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 thought | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Lion | amod |
| 15 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 discovering | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 discovering | cc |
| 24 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 25 discovering | mark |
| 25 | discovering | discover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | advcl |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 happened | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 happened | aux |
| 28 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 discovering | xcomp |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 set | nsubj |
| 30 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 happened | parataxis |
| 31 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 32 cleaning | mark |
| 32 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 set | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 skin | det |
| 34 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cleaning | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 propped | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 propped | cc |
| 37 | propped | prop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mouth | det |
| 39 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 propped | obj |
| 40 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 propped | xcomp |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 sticks | case |
| 42 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 open | obl |
| 43 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 47 get | mark |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 so | fixed |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 get | nsubj |
| 46 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 get | aux |
| 47 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 propped | advcl |
| 48 | through | through | ADV | _ | 47 get | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | participle | the little hare not said here | the noise | with terror | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at noise=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the little hare | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | must · perfect | Big Lion | life | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | discover | gerund | the little hare not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | set | past | Lion | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | clean | gerund | Lion not said here | the skin | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 8 | prop | past | the little hare not said here | the mouth | open property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme | |||
| 9 | get through | could | Lion | through property | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: 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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