The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 8
The little hare, who had taken refuge within, called out again, ‘Big Lion, be quick and come down and dine with me.’
Who acts: little hare · What happens: take, call out, be, come down, dine · To what, where: refuge
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), 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 | 3 hare | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hare | amod |
| 3 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 quick | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 taken | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 hare | acl:relcl |
| 8 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obj |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 taken | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 taken | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 called | compound:prt |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 called | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lion | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Lion | punct |
| 16 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Lion | amod |
| 17 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hare | punct |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 quick | cop |
| 20 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 quick | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 come | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dine | cc |
| 25 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 dine | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 quick | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | the little hare | refuge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | the little hare not said here | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | the little hare | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come down | infinitive | the little hare not said here | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | dine | infinitive | the little hare not said here | with me | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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