The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 13
So, dressed in Big Lion’s skin, the little hare started on his travels.
What happens: dress, start, travel · To what, where: skin, little hare
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 skin | case |
| 5 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Lion | compound |
| 6 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 skin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Lion | case |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hare | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hare | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hare | amod |
| 12 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skin | appos |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hare | acl |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 travels | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 travels | nmod:poss |
| 16 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 started | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | Big Lion's skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | start | participle | the little hare not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | travel | present | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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