The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 17
At length, one evening, the little hare, looking round for something to amuse him, noticed a great pot full of boiling water, so he strolled up to one of the hyaenas and said, ‘Go and get in.’
Who acts: hare · What happens: look round, amuse, notice, boil, stroll up, say · To what, where: hare, great pot, length, one · 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 noticed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 evening | nummod |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hare | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hare | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hare | amod |
| 9 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 length | conj |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 something | case |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 looking | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 amuse | mark |
| 16 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 something | acl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 amuse | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 19 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pot | amod |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 noticed | obj |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pot | amod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 water | amod |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 strolled | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 strolled | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 strolled | nsubj |
| 30 | strolled | stroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 noticed | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 strolled | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 one | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 strolled | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 hyaenas | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hyaenas | det |
| 36 | hyaenas | hyaena | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 one | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 noticed | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Go | punct |
| 40 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 Go | punct |
| 41 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 said | ccomp |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 get | cc |
| 43 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 41 Go | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADV | _ | 43 get | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 Go | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | gerund | for something; round property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for something=Theme | |||||
| 2 | amuse | to-infinitive | hare | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | notice | past | a great pot | length and the little hare | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pot=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | stroll up | past | hare | one of the hyaenas | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to one=Destination | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | get in | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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