The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 6

Then the little hare began quietly to eat Big Lion’s dinner right before his eyes, and paying no attention at all to his growls of rage.

Who acts: little hare, rage · What happens: begin, eat, pay, growl · To what, where: dinner, attention, all

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 (little hare, rage), 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	5 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hare	amod
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 began	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
9	Big	Big	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dinner	nmod:poss
10	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Big	flat
11	’s	's	PART	_	9 Big	case
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj
13	right	right	ADV	_	16 eyes	advmod
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 eyes	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 eyes	nmod:poss
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 paying	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 paying	cc
19	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 began	advcl
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 attention	det
21	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 paying	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 paying	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 growls	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 growls	nmod:poss
26	growls	growl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 paying	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 rage	case
28	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 growls	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the little hare			then	quietly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	the little hare not said here	Big's dinner		before hare's eyes		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
3	pay	gerund	the little hare not said here	no attention	all		to hare's growls of rage	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
4	growl		rage					nom growl «event intransitive»: of=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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