The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 4
Big Lion did as he was bid, and the little hare tied it tightly to the stakes of the wall.
Who acts: Big Lion, little hare · What happens: do, bid, tie, stake · To what, where: Lion, tongue, wall
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 (Big Lion, 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Lion | amod |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bid | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bid | aux:pass |
| 7 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tied | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hare | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hare | amod |
| 12 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tied | nsubj |
| 13 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tied | obj |
| 15 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 13 tied | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 stakes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stakes | det |
| 18 | stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 tied | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wall | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wall | det |
| 21 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stakes | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Big Lion | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | Lion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tie | past | the little hare | tongue | to the stakes of the wall; tightly property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to stake=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | stake | the wall | nom stake «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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