The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 67
The little hare then vanished; the youth did as he was bid, and the castle servants never noticed that he was carrying off the Golden Bird.
Who acts: little hare, youth, castle servants, hare · What happens: vanish, do, bid, not notice, carry off · To what, where: hare, Golden Bird
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, youth, castle servants, 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 | 5 vanished | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 vanished | advmod |
| 5 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 youth | det |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vanished | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 bid | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bid | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bid | aux:pass |
| 13 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 did | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 noticed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 noticed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 servants | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 servants | compound |
| 18 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 noticed | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 noticed | advmod |
| 20 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vanished | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 carrying | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carrying | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 carrying | aux |
| 24 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 noticed | advcl |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 Bird | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Bird | det |
| 27 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Bird | amod |
| 28 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 carrying | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the little hare | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the youth | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bid | past · passive | hare | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not notice | past | the castle servants | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | carry off | past · progressive | hare | the Golden Bird | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
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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