The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 72
The little hare came running to him, and said ‘Take hold of my leg and pull yourself out of the water.’
Who acts: little hare · What happens: come, run, say, take, pull, hold · To what, where: brother, hold, yourself, water, leg · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 came | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 running | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Take | punct |
| 12 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 13 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Take | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 leg | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 leg | nmod:poss |
| 16 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hold | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pull | cc |
| 18 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Take | conj |
| 19 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 pull | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pull | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Take | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the little hare | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | the little hare not said here | brother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | hold of my leg | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||||
| 5 | pull | present | yourself | the water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme out water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | hold | my leg | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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