The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 33
When supper was being cooked that evening, before they all went to bed, the little hare, looking fierce and terrible in Big Lion’s skin, said as usual to one of the hyaenas ‘Go and get into the boiling water.’
Who acts: hyaenas · What happens: cook, go, look, say, get · To what, where: supper, bed, one, boiling water · 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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 cooked | advmod |
| 2 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cooked | aux:pass |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cooked | aux:pass |
| 5 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 evening | det |
| 7 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cooked | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 went | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 went | advmod |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cooked | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hare | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hare | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hare | amod |
| 18 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looking | punct |
| 20 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 21 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 looking | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 terrible | cc |
| 23 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fierce | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 skin | case |
| 25 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Lion | compound |
| 26 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 skin | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Lion | case |
| 28 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looking | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 usual | case |
| 32 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 said | obl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 one | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 Go | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 hyaenas | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hyaenas | det |
| 37 | hyaenas | hyaena | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Go | obl |
| 38 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 hyaenas | punct |
| 39 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 said | ccomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 get | cc |
| 41 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 Go | conj |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 water | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 water | det |
| 44 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 water | compound |
| 45 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 get | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cooked | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cooked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | past · passive | supper | evening | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | hyaenas = hyaena | bed and the little hare | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | hyaenas = hyaena not said here | in Big Lion's skin; fierce property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in skin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | hyaenas = hyaena not said here | as usual | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | one | of the hyaenas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location of hyaena=Destination | ||||
| 6 | get | infinitive | the boiling water | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into water=Destination |
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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