The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 32

That night the two hyaenas told all the rest, saying, ‘Do you know that we have allowed ourselves to be trampled on by a wretched creature with nothing of the lion about him but his skin?’

Who acts: two hyaenas, you, wretched creature · What happens: tell, say, know, allow, trample on · To what, where: rest, we, ourselves · 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 (two hyaenas, you, wretched creature), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hyaenas	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 hyaenas	nummod
5	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 rest	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rest	det
9	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 told	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
14	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 saying	ccomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 allowed	mark
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 allowed	nsubj:pass
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 allowed	aux
20	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 know	ccomp
21	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 allowed	iobj
22	to	to	PART	_	24 trampled	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 trampled	aux:pass
24	trampled	trample	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 allowed	xcomp
25	on	on	ADP	_	24 trampled	compound:prt
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 creature	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 creature	det
28	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 creature	amod
29	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 trampled	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 nothing	case
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 creature	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 lion	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lion	det
34	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 nothing	nmod
35	about	about	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lion	nmod
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 skin	cc
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 skin	nmod:poss
39	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 him	conj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the two hyaenas	all rest		night	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the two hyaenas not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	allow	present · perfect · passive		we	ourselves		tree rules
5	trample on not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	a wretched creature with nothing				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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