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title: When everything was tight closed the little hare turned to Big Lion… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When everything was tight closed the little hare turned to Big Lion and said ‘Now!’ and Big Lion bounded out of the ditch and tore the other animals in pieces. Who acts: Big Lion. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 103

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When everything was tight closed the little hare turned to Big Lion and said ‘Now!’ and Big Lion bounded out of the ditch and tore the other animals in pieces.

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**Who acts:** Big Lion · **What happens:** close, turn, say, bound, tore · **To what, where:** everything, little hare, Big Lion, ditch, other animals, pieces · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Big Lion), 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:pg5615:35:103
# text = When everything was tight closed the little hare turned to Big Lion and said ‘Now!’ and Big Lion bounded out of the ditch and tore the other animals in pieces.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | past · passive |  | everything |  |  |  | tight *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | participle |  | the little hare *not said here* | Big Lion |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lion=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bound** | past | Big Lion |  |  | the ditch |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out ditch=Trajectory |
| 5 | **tore** | past | Big Lion *not said here* | the other animals |  | pieces |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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