--- title: “Hark!” said he, “that must be an owl in great trouble, I am sure it… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Hark!” said he, “that must be an owl in great trouble, I am sure it has gone into a snare”; and he began to hunt about, and presently found a great net which some bird-catchers had spread the night before. Who acts: Hark, that, owl. 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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 (Hark, that, owl), 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:pg503:28:59 # text = “Hark!” said he, “that must be an owl in great trouble, I am sure it has gone into a snare”; and he began to hunt about, and presently found a great net which some bird-catchers had spread the night before. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hark Hark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 10 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 ccomp _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 snare snare NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ” " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 about about ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 presently presently ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 obj _ _ 43 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 46 det _ _ 44 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 catchers catcher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl:relcl _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl:unmarked _ _ 51 before before ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Hark | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | that | a owl | | great trouble | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Hark | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect | owl | | | a snare | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into snare=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **begin** | past | Hark | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Hark *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **find** | past | Hark *not said here* | a great net | | | | presently *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Topic | | 8 | **spread** | past · perfect · passive | | some bird catchers | | | night | before *property* | tree rules | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/60/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Pretty Goldilocks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/28/)