The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 49
By this time the hare had decided what he would do, and as soon as they arrived, he quietly set on fire the wood on the back of the Tanuki.
Who acts: hare, ways · What happens: decide, do, arrive, set · To what, where: hare, wood, fire · 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 (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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decided | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 decided | aux |
| 7 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 decided | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 arrived | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arrived | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 arrived | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 arrived | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 arrived | nsubj |
| 18 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 decided | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 set | nsubj |
| 21 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 22 set | advmod |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 arrived | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wood | det |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 back | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 back | det |
| 29 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Tanuki | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Tanuki | det |
| 32 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 back | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · perfect · passive | the hare | time | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | would | hare | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past | ways = way | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set | past | hare | the wood | fire | on the back of the Tanuki; quietly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme on fire=Destination |
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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