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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 24

When the hyaenas returned to their homes the little hyaena said to her father: ‘Father, our tribe has very nearly been swept away, and all this has been the work of a tiny creature dressed in the lion’s skin.’

Who acts: hyaenas, little hyaena, this · What happens: return, say, sweep away, be, dress · To what, where: Father, work, tiny creature, 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 (hyaenas, little hyaena, this), 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

advmoddetnsubjadvclcasenmod:possobldetamodnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctpunctnsubjpunctnmod:possnsubjauxadvmodadvmodaux:passccompadvmodpunctccdet:predetnsubjauxcopdetoblcasedetamodnmodaclcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctpunctrootWhenADVtheDEThyaenasNOUNreturnedVERBtoADPtheirPRONhomesNOUNtheDETlittleADJhyaenaNOUNsaidVERBtoADPherPRONfatherNOUN:PUNCT‘PUNCTFatherPROPN,PUNCTourPRONtribeNOUNhasAUXveryADVnearlyADVbeenAUXsweptVERBawayADV,PUNCTandCCONJallDETthisPRONhasAUXbeenAUXtheDETworkNOUNofADPaDETtinyADJcreatureNOUNdressedVERBinADPtheDETlionNOUN’sPARTskinNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 returnedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 hyaenasdet
3hyaenashyaenaNOUNNumber=Plur4 returnednsubj
4returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 saidadvcl
5totoADP_7 homescase
6theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 homesnmod:poss
7homeshomeNOUNNumber=Plur4 returnedobl
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 hyaenadet
9littlelittleADJDegree=Pos10 hyaenaamod
10hyaenahyaenaNOUNNumber=Sing11 saidnsubj
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12totoADP_14 fathercase
13herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 fathernmod:poss
14fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing11 saidobl
15::PUNCT_25 sweptpunct
16‘'PUNCT_25 sweptpunct
17FatherFatherPROPNNumber=Sing25 sweptnsubj
18,,PUNCT_21 haspunct
19ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 tribenmod:poss
20tribetribeNOUNNumber=Sing21 hasnsubj
21hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 sweptaux
22veryveryADV_25 sweptadvmod
23nearlynearlyADV_25 sweptadvmod
24beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 sweptaux:pass
25sweptsweepVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 saidccomp
26awayawayADV_25 sweptadvmod
27,,PUNCT_34 workpunct
28andandCCONJ_34 workcc
29allallDETPronType=Tot34 workdet:predet
30thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem34 worknsubj
31hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin34 workaux
32beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part34 workcop
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 workdet
34workworkNOUNNumber=Sing25 sweptobl
35ofofADP_38 creaturecase
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 creaturedet
37tinytinyADJDegree=Pos38 creatureamod
38creaturecreatureNOUNNumber=Sing34 worknmod
39dresseddressVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass38 creatureacl
40ininADP_44 skincase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 liondet
42lionlionNOUNNumber=Sing44 skinnmod:poss
43’s'sPART_42 lioncase
44skinskinNOUNNumber=Sing39 dressedobl
45..PUNCT_25 sweptpunct
46’'PUNCT_25 sweptpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1returnpastthe hyaenasto hyaenas's homes resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
2say speech: assertpastthe little hyaenato beast's fathervn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to father=Experiencer clause=Topic
3sweep awaypresent · perfect · passiveFatheraway, nearly propertyvn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4is apresent · perfectthisall workof a tiny creaturetree rules
5dressparticiplea tiny creature not said herethe lion's skinvn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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