The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 64
A nice fat hare is a dinner for a feast day.’
Who acts: nice fat hare · What happens: be · To what, where: dinner
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 (nice fat hare), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 2 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hare | amod |
| 3 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hare | compound |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dinner | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dinner | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dinner | det |
| 7 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | compound |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dinner | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dinner | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 dinner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a nice fat hare | a dinner | day | 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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