The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 23

‘Look!’ said the barber, ‘here comes something in the nick of time!’ seized basin and soap, made a lather whilst the hare was approaching, and then, as it ran at full tilt, shaved its moustaches, without cutting it or injuring a single hair on its body.

Who acts: hare, full tilt · What happens: look, say, come, seize, make, approach · To what, where: barber, something, nick, basin, lather, full tilt · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, full tilt), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 barber	det
7	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 here	punct
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 comes	advmod
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 seized	advcl
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 comes	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 nick	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nick	det
15	nick	nick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 something	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 time	case
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nick	nmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct
20	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
21	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seized	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 soap	cc
23	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 basin	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lather	det
27	lather	lather	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
28	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	32 approaching	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hare	det
30	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 approaching	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 approaching	aux
32	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 made	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ran	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ran	cc
35	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 ran	advmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ran	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 ran	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ran	nsubj
39	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	conj
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 tilt	case
41	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 tilt	amod
42	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ran	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 shaved	punct
44	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 tilt	acl
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 moustaches	nmod:poss
46	moustaches	moustache	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 shaved	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 cutting	punct
48	without	without	SCONJ	_	49 cutting	mark
49	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 ran	advcl
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 cutting	obj
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 injuring	cc
52	injuring	injure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 cutting	conj
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 hair	det
54	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 hair	amod
55	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 injuring	obj
56	on	on	ADP	_	58 body	case
57	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 body	nmod:poss
58	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 injuring	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	look	infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past		the barber			tree rules
3	come	present		something	the nick of time; here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme
4	seize	past		basin and soap			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basin=Theme
5	make	past		a lather			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lather=Product
6	approach	past · progressive	the hare				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	run	past	hare		full tilt	then	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tilt=Trajectory
8	shave	participle	full tilt not said here	hare's moustaches			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moustache=Patient
9	cut	gerund	hare not said here	hare			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
10	injure	gerund	hare not said here	a single hair	hare's body		tree rules

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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