--- title: The little hare took it and cried, ‘Now it is my turn to pierce them… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The little hare took it and cried, ‘Now it is my turn to pierce them,’ and as he spoke he passed the rod back through the reeds and gave Big Lion’s tail a sharp poke. Who acts: little hare, rod, hare. 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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 (little hare, rod, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg5615:35:109 # text = The little hare took it and cried, ‘Now it is my turn to pierce them,’ and as he spoke he passed the rod back through the reeds and gave Big Lion’s tail a sharp poke. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 pierce pierce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 rod rod NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 29 through through ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 reeds reed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 34 Big Big PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 poke poke NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | the little hare | rod | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the little hare *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | rod | my turn | | | now | | tree rules | | 4 | **pierce** | to-infinitive | the little hare *not said here* | roofs *= roof* | | | | | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | hare | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pass** | past | hare | the rod | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rod=Trajectory | | 7 | **give** | past | hare *not said here* | Big Lion's tail | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tail=Recipient poke=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/35/108/) - next →: [sentence 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/35/110/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/35/)