The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 38

The hyaenas soon came up to him and said, ‘Tell me, friend, have you seen the little hare go by?’

Who acts: hyaenas, you, little hare · What happens: come up, say, tell, see, go by · To what, where: hare, friend, me, little hare · 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, you, little hare), 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	2 hyaenas	det
2	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Tell	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Tell	punct
12	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 Tell	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 friend	punct
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Tell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seen	punct
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 seen	nsubj
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 Tell	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hare	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hare	amod
22	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seen	obj
23	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 seen	xcomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	23 go	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 Tell	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the hyaenas		hare	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the hyaenas not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive		friend	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	see	present · perfect	you	the little hare			tree rules
5	go by	infinitive	the little hare not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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