The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 52
The little hare, who took seven miles in a stride, was there in no time at all, and he stopped on the borders of a lake.
Who acts: little hare, hare · What happens: take, be, stop · To what, where: seven miles, stride, borders
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 (little hare, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hare | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hare | amod |
| 3 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 there | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hare | acl:relcl |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 miles | nummod |
| 8 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 stride | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stride | det |
| 11 | stride | stride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hare | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | cop |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 there | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 time | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stopped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stopped | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stopped | nsubj |
| 23 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | parataxis |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 borders | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 borders | det |
| 26 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stopped | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 lake | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 lake | det |
| 29 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 borders | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the little hare | seven miles | a stride | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mile=Value in stride=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | the little hare | time | there property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stop | past | hare | the borders of a lake | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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