The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 14

Then he drove back to the forest and hung the pike up at the very top of a tree, and tied up the hare in a fishing net and fastened it on the edge of a little stream, not troubling himself to think how unpleasant such a wet spot was likely to be to the hare.

Who acts: foot, wet spot · What happens: drive back, hang up, tie up, fasten, not trouble, think · To what, where: forest, pike, top, hare, fishing net, foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foot, wet spot), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 drove	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 drove	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hung	cc
9	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pike	det
11	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hung	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	9 hung	compound:prt
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 top	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 top	advmod
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hung	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 tree	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tree	det
19	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 top	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tied	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tied	cc
22	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 drove	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 tied	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hare	det
25	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tied	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 net	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 net	det
28	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 net	compound
29	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tied	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fastened	cc
31	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tied	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fastened	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 edge	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 edge	det
35	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fastened	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 stream	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 stream	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 stream	amod
39	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 edge	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 troubling	punct
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 troubling	advmod
42	troubling	trouble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 fastened	advcl
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 troubling	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 think	mark
45	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 troubling	advcl
46	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	47 unpleasant	advmod
47	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 think	xcomp
48	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	51 spot	det:predet
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 spot	det
50	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 spot	amod
51	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 likely	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 likely	cop
53	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 think	ccomp
54	to	to	PART	_	58 hare	mark
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 hare	cop
56	to	to	ADP	_	58 hare	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 hare	det
58	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 likely	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive back	past	foot		the forest	then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to forest=Trajectory
2	hang up	past	foot not said here	the pike	the top of a tree			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pike=Theme at top=Destination
3	tie up	participle	foot not said here	the hare	a fishing net			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Patient
4	fasten	past	foot not said here	hare			on the edge of a little stream	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient on edge=Co-Patient
5	not trouble	gerund	foot not said here	foot				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive	foot not said here				unpleasant property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	such wet spot				likely property	tree rules
8	is	to-infinitive	such wet spot not said here				to the hare	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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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