--- title: ‘Very soon the hare got up and said, “Well, as I have another engage… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Very soon the hare got up and said, “Well, as I have another engagement I will leave you to make acquaintance with your future husband,” and winking at the lion she bounded away. Who acts: hare, donkey. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, donkey), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:6:16 # text = ‘Very soon the hare got up and said, “Well, as I have another engagement I will leave you to make acquaintance with your future husband,” and winking at the lion she bounded away. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Well well INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 17 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 engagement engagement NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 25 acquaintance acquaintance NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 future future ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 winking wink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 bounded bound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | the hare | | | | | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the hare *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the hare *= hare* | another engagement | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engagement=Patient | | 4 | **leave** *in a quote* | future | the hare *= hare* | you | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the hare *= hare* *not said here* | acquaintance | | | | with your future husband | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product | | 6 | **wink** | gerund | the hare *not said here* | | | | | at the lion | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **bound away** | past | donkey | the lion *not said here* | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location lion=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/17/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/)