The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 15
Meanwhile the little hare did not trouble himself about them, but just asked where the king of the hyaenas lived, and made himself quite at home there.
Who acts: little hare, king · What happens: do, ask, live, make · To what, where: trouble, hare, home
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, king), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hare | amod |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 trouble | advmod |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 7 trouble | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 trouble | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 asked | advmod |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | parataxis |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 lived | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hyaenas | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hyaenas | det |
| 20 | hyaenas | hyaena | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 king | nmod |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 made | cc |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | conj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 24 made | advmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 home | case |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obl |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 made | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the little hare | trouble hare | about hyaenas = hyaena; meanwhile property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | live | past | the king of the hyaenas | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | past | hare | home; there | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
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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