The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 45

So he accepted the rascal’s company with joy, and made himself very pleasant as they strolled along.

Who acts: hare, ways · What happens: accept, make, stroll · To what, where: company, hare

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 (hare, ways), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 accepted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 accepted	nsubj
3	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rascal	det
5	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 company	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 rascal	case
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accepted	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 joy	case
9	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 accepted	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 accepted	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 made	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 pleasant	advmod
15	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 strolled	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 strolled	nsubj
18	strolled	stroll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pleasant	advcl
19	along	along	ADV	_	18 strolled	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 accepted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accept	past	hare	the rascal's company	with joy	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme
2	make	past	hare not said here	hare	pleasant property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product
3	stroll	past	ways = way		along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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