The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 5

Then he went outside and shouted, ‘Grandfather, you can come down now,’ and Big Lion tried, but he could not move an inch.

Who acts: hare, you, Big Lion · What happens: go, shout, come down, try, not move · To what, where: Grandfather, inch

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, you, Big Lion), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shouted	cc
6	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Grandfather	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Grandfather	punct
9	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shouted	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	parataxis
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 come	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ’	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tried	cc
19	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Lion	compound
20	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 tried	nsubj
21	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 move	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 move	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 move	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 move	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 move	advmod
27	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	parataxis
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 inch	det
29	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 move	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	hare		then	outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	past	hare not said here	Grandfather			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandfather=Topic
3	come down	can	you		now	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	past	Big Lion				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	not move	could	hare	a inch			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent inch=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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