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title: ‘“Thank you,” replied the hare, balancing the donkey on her back as… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘“Thank you,” replied the hare, balancing the donkey on her back as well as she was able, and though the legs trailed along the ground she managed to drag it to an open space some distance off, where she made a fire and roasted it. Who acts: hare, donkey. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 55

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‘“Thank you,” replied the hare, balancing the donkey on her back as well as she was able, and though the legs trailed along the ground she managed to drag it to an open space some distance off, where she made a fire and roasted it.

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**Who acts:** hare, donkey · **What happens:** thank, reply, balance, be, trail, manage · **To what, where:** you, donkey, back, legs, ground, open space · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. 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.

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**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:pg3454:6:55
# text = ‘“Thank you,” replied the hare, balancing the donkey on her back as well as she was able, and though the legs trailed along the ground she managed to drag it to an open space some distance off, where she made a fire and roasted it.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	balancing	balance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	22	cc	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	trailed	trail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	along	along	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
42	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
43	off	off	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	roasted	roast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | the hare *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **balance** | gerund | the hare *not said here* | the donkey |  | donkey's back |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent donkey=Theme on back=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | donkey |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **trail** | participle |  | the legs *not said here* |  | the ground |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent along ground=Trajectory |
| 6 | **manage** | past | donkey | the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **drag off** | to-infinitive | donkey *not said here* | ground |  | a open space |  | some distance *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to space=Destination |
| 8 | **make** | past | donkey | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 9 | **roast** | past | donkey *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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.

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**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.

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