The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 22
I am just the little hare, the little hare, the little hare; I am just the little hare who killed the great hyaenas.
Who acts: I, little hare · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: little hare, great hyaenas
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 (I, little 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hare | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hare | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 hare | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hare | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hare | amod |
| 6 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hare | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hare | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hare | amod |
| 10 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hare | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hare | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hare | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hare | amod |
| 14 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hare | appos |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 hare | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 hare | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hare | cop |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 hare | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hare | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hare | amod |
| 21 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hare | appos |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 killed | nsubj |
| 23 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hare | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hyaenas | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hyaenas | amod |
| 26 | hyaenas | hyaena | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 killed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the little hare and the little hare | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | the little hare | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | the little hare | the great hyaenas | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hyaena=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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