The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 44
To do this he thought he had better offer to accompany the hare, which was exactly what the hare wished and expected, for he knew all the Tanuki’s cunning, and understood his little ways.
Who acts: knave, better offer, hare · What happens: do, think, have, accompany, be, wish · To what, where: this, better offer, hare, cunning, little ways · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (knave, better offer, 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 do | mark |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 do | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 offer | amod |
| 9 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 accompany | mark |
| 11 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hare | det |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accompany | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 what | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | cop |
| 17 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 18 what | advmod |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 hare | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hare | det |
| 20 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 what | nsubj |
| 21 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hare | acl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 expected | cc |
| 23 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wished | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 knew | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 knew | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 knew | nsubj |
| 27 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 wished | parataxis |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 cunning | det:predet |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Tanuki | det |
| 30 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 cunning | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Tanuki | case |
| 32 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knew | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 understood | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 understood | cc |
| 35 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 knew | conj |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 ways | nmod:poss |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ways | amod |
| 38 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 understood | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | to-infinitive | knave not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | knave | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | knave | better offer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | accompany | to-infinitive | better offer not said here | the hare | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the hare | exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wish | participle | the hare not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | know | past | knave | the Tanuki's cunning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cunning=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | understand | past | knave not said here | knave's little ways | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=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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