The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 37

As he turned a corner the little hare cut off both his ears, so that they should not know him, and pretended to be working at a grindstone which lay there.

Who acts: hare, little hare, ears, grindstone · What happens: turn, cut off, not know, pretend, work, lie · To what, where: corner, ears, hare

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 (hare, little hare, ears, grindstone), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 turned	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pretended	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 corner	det
5	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hare	amod
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hare	acl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 ears	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ears	nmod:poss
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cut	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 know	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 know	advmod
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turned	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 know	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pretended	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 pretended	cc
24	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	to	to	PART	_	27 working	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 working	aux
27	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 pretended	advcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 grindstone	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 grindstone	det
30	grindstone	grindstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 working	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 lay	nsubj
32	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 grindstone	acl:relcl
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 lay	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	hare	a corner			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent corner=Theme hare=Result
2	cut off	participle	the little hare not said here	hare's ears			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector ear=Eventuality
3	not know	should	ears = ear	hare			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	pretend	past					tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive · progressive				at a grindstone	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at grindstone=Theme
6	lie	past	a grindstone		there		vn assuming_position-50 «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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