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title: When the fire was quite out the little hare went and picked up one o… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the fire was quite out the little hare went and picked up one of these bones, and made a flute out of it, and sang this song: Who acts: fire, little hare. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 84

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When the fire was quite out the little hare went and picked up one of these bones, and made a flute out of it, and sang this song:

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**Who acts:** fire, little hare · **What happens:** be, go, pick up, make, sing · **To what, where:** one, flute, fire, song

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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 (fire, little hare), 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:pg5615:35:84
# text = When the fire was quite out the little hare went and picked up one of these bones, and made a flute out of it, and sang this song:
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fire |  |  |  |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | the little hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pick up** | past | the little hare *not said here* | one of this bones |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | past | the little hare *not said here* | a flute |  | fire |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flute=Product |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the little hare *not said here* | this song |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |

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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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