The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 24
As he went his way he met a little hare, who stopped to look at him, and asked:
Who acts: landlord, little hare · What happens: go, meet, stop, look, ask · To what, where: way, little hare
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, little 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hare | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hare | amod |
| 10 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stopped | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 stopped | nsubj |
| 13 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hare | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 stopped | xcomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 look | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | landlord | landlord's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | landlord | a little hare | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | a little hare | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | a little hare not said here | at landlord | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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