The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 23

The little hyaena gazed at him in surprise, saying to herself, ‘What! was it really this tiny beast who put to death all our best people?’ when suddenly a gust of wind rustled the reeds that surrounded the enclosure, and the little hare, in a fright, hastily sprang back into Big Lion’s skin.

Who acts: little hyaena, tiny beast, gust · What happens: gaze, say, be, put, rustle, surround · To what, where: surprise, Big, tiny beast, best people, reeds, fright · 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 hyaena, tiny beast, gust), 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 hyaena	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hyaena	amod
3	hyaena	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gazed	nsubj
4	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gazed	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 surprise	case
8	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gazed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gazed	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 herself	case
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 saying	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 What	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 What	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 beast	nsubj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 What	punct
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 beast	cop
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 beast	nsubj
19	really	really	ADV	_	22 beast	advmod
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 beast	det
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 beast	amod
22	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	ccomp
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 beast	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 death	case
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 people	det:predet
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 people	nmod:poss
29	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 people	amod
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 put	obj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 put	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 beast	punct
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 rustled	advmod
34	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	36 gust	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 gust	det
36	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rustled	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 wind	case
38	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gust	nmod
39	rustled	rustle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	ccomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 reeds	det
41	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 rustled	obj
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 surrounded	nsubj:pass
43	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 reeds	acl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 enclosure	det
45	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 surrounded	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 hare	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 hare	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 hare	det
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 hare	amod
50	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rustled	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 fright	punct
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 fright	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 fright	det
54	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rustled	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 sprang	punct
56	hastily	hastily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 sprang	amod
57	sprang	sprang	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 fright	appos
58	back	back	ADV	_	57 sprang	advmod
59	into	into	ADP	_	63 skin	case
60	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 Lion	compound
61	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 skin	nmod:poss
62	’s	's	PART	_	61 Lion	case
63	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 back	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	gaze	past	the little hyaena			surprise	at hare	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the little hyaena not said here		Big			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to herself=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	is a	past		this tiny beast				tree rules
4	put	past	this tiny beast		our best people		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent people=Goal
5	rustle	past	a gust of wind	the reeds		a fright	the little hare obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reed=Theme
6	surround	participle · passive		the reeds				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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