The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 19
Then the little hare went the round of the village, saying to every hyaena he met, ‘Go and get into the boiling water,’ so that in a little while there was hardly a male left in the village.
Who acts: little hare, hare, male · What happens: go, say, meet, get, boil, be · To what, where: round, little, hyaena, boiling water, male, village · 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, hare, male), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | 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 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 round | det |
| 7 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 round | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hyaena | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 hyaena | det |
| 15 | hyaena | hyaena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saying | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 met | nsubj |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hyaena | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 20 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 Go | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 25 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 water | amod |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 little | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 so | fixed |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 little | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 little | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | obl |
| 34 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 was | mark |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 was | expl |
| 36 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | advcl |
| 37 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 39 male | advmod |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 male | det |
| 39 | male | male | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 was | nsubj |
| 40 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 male | acl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 village | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 village | det |
| 43 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 left | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the little hare | the round of the village | a little | then | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location round=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the little hare not said here | to every hyaena | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to hyaena=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | hare | every hyaena not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hyaena=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | get | infinitive | the boiling water | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | |||||
| 6 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | be | past | a male | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | leave | participle | a male not said here | in the village result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in village=Result |
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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