The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 40

‘Where can he be?’ said the hyaenas one to another.

Who acts: hare · What happens: be, say · To what, where: hyaenas · 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 (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 be	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 be	nsubj
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hyaenas	det
10	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hyaenas	flat
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 one	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	can	can	hare						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the hyaenas					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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