The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 16

Every morning each hyaena thought to himself, ‘To-day he is certain to eat me;’ but several days went by, and they were all still alive.

Who acts: hare, several days, hyaenas · What happens: think, be, eat, go by · To what, where: hyaena, hare, me

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, several days, hyaenas), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hyaena	det
4	hyaena	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 morning	appos
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 hyaena	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 thought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 certain	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 certain	punct
10	To	to	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 To	punct
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 certain	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 certain	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 certain	cop
15	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thought	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 certain	xcomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 eat	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 certain	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 certain	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
22	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 days	amod
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 certain	conj
25	by	by	ADP	_	24 went	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 alive	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 alive	cc
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 alive	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 alive	cop
30	all	all	ADV	_	32 alive	advmod
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 alive	advmod
32	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 certain	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	participle		each hyaena not said here	hare			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	hare			day	certain property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	hare not said here	me				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	go by	past	several days					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	hyaenas = hyaena			still	alive, all property	tree rules

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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