The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 36

While he was thus weeping and wailing his friend the hare passed by, and, hearing the noise, pricked up his ears and soon recognised the old man’s voice.

Who acts: peasant · What happens: weep, wail, pass by, hear, prick up, recognise · To what, where: friend, hare, noise, ears, voice

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 weeping	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 weeping	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 weeping	aux
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 weeping	advmod
5	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wailing	cc
7	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 weeping	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friend	nmod:poss
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wailing	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hare	det
11	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wailing	obj
12	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hare	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	12 passed	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hearing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hearing	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hearing	punct
17	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 weeping	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 noise	det
19	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hearing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pricked	punct
21	pricked	prick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 hearing	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 pricked	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ears	nmod:poss
24	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pricked	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 recognised	cc
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 recognised	advmod
27	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 pricked	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 voice	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 man	case
32	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 recognised	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 weeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past · progressive	peasant		thus property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wail	gerund	peasant not said here	peasant's friend		tree rules
3	pass by	participle		the hare not said here		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	gerund	peasant not said here	the noise		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
5	prick up	participle		peasant's ears		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient
6	recognise	past		the old man's voice	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

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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