The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 59
It IS a hare, so you needn’t say it isn’t.
Who acts: hare, you · What happens: be, not say · To what, where: hare · 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 (hare, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hare | nsubj |
| 2 | IS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hare | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 say | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 8 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | aux |
| 9 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 say | advmod |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hare | acl:relcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 n’t | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 n’t | cop |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 say | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | hare | a hare | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | present | you | a hare not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hare=Topic |
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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