The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 7
Again and again he had crept to the hut, and finding some choice morsel put away for the little hare, had either eaten it if he thought it nice, or trampled it to pieces so that no one else should get it, and at last the peasant lost patience, and made up his mind he would have the Tanuki’s blood.
Who acts: friendship, one, last, peasant · What happens: creep, find, put away, eat, think, trample · To what, where: hut, choice morsel, morsel, patience, mind, blood
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 (friendship, one, last, 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 6 crept | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 again | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Again | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 crept | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 crept | aux |
| 6 | crept | creep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 hut | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hut | det |
| 9 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crept | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 finding | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 finding | cc |
| 12 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 crept | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 morsel | det |
| 14 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 morsel | compound |
| 15 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finding | obj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 morsel | acl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 hare | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hare | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hare | amod |
| 21 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eaten | punct |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 eaten | aux |
| 24 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 eaten | advmod |
| 25 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 finding | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eaten | obj |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 thought | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 thought | nsubj |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 eaten | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 thought | obj |
| 31 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thought | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 trampled | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 trampled | cc |
| 34 | trampled | trample | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 thought | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 trampled | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 pieces | case |
| 37 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 trampled | obl |
| 38 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 44 get | mark |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 so | fixed |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 one | det |
| 41 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 get | nsubj |
| 42 | else | else | ADV | _ | 41 one | advmod |
| 43 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 get | aux |
| 44 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 trampled | advcl |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 get | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 lost | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 lost | cc |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 49 last | case |
| 49 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 lost | nsubj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 peasant | det |
| 51 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 last | nsubj |
| 52 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 crept | advcl |
| 53 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 lost | obj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 made | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 made | cc |
| 56 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 crept | parataxis |
| 57 | up | up | ADP | _ | 56 made | compound:prt |
| 58 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 mind | nmod:poss |
| 59 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 made | obj |
| 60 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 have | nsubj |
| 61 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 62 have | aux |
| 62 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 made | parataxis |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 64 Tanuki | det |
| 64 | Tanuki | Tanuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 66 blood | nmod:poss |
| 65 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 64 Tanuki | case |
| 66 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 have | obj |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past · perfect | friendship | the hut | again | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination | |||
| 2 | find | gerund | friendship not said here | some choice morsel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Topic | ||||
| 3 | put away | participle | some choice morsel not said here | for the little hare; away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | eat | past · perfect | friendship not said here | morsel | either property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past | friendship | morsel | nice property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | |||
| 6 | trample | past | friendship not said here | morsel | to pieces | tree rules | |||
| 7 | get | should | no one | morsel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | lose | past | last | patience | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | make up | participle | friendship's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 10 | have | would | peasant | the Tanuki's blood | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | ||||
| 11 | mind | friendship | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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