The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 21

The little hare, thinking he was all alone, came into the enclosure, and, wishing to feel what it was like to be a hare again, threw off Big Lion’s skin, and began to jump and dance, singing--

Who acts: little hare, hare, it · What happens: think, be, come, wish, feel, throw off · To what, where: enclosure, hare, skin · 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, it), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hare	amod
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct
5	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hare	acl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 alone	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 alone	cop
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 alone	advmod
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 thinking	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hare	punct
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 enclosure	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 enclosure	det
14	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wishing	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wishing	cc
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wishing	punct
18	wishing	wish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 came	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 feel	mark
20	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wishing	xcomp
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 like	obj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 like	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 like	cop
24	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feel	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	28 hare	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 hare	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hare	det
28	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 like	xcomp
29	again	again	ADV	_	20 feel	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 threw	punct
31	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	parataxis
32	off	off	ADP	_	36 skin	case
33	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Lion	compound
34	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 skin	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Lion	case
36	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 threw	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 began	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 began	cc
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 jump	mark
41	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 dance	cc
43	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 jump	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 singing	punct
45	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 began	advcl
46	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	the little hare not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	hare				all, alone property	tree rules
3	come	past	the little hare		the enclosure			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into enclosure=Initial_Location
4	wish	gerund	the little hare not said here					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	feel not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little hare not said here			again		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	past	it				like property	tree rules
7	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		a hare				tree rules
8	throw off	past		Big Lion's skin				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
9	begin	past						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	jump	to-infinitive						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	dance	infinitive						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	sing speech: express	gerund						vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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