--- title: When supper was being cooked that evening, before they all went to b… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When supper was being cooked that evening, before they all went to bed, the little hare, looking fierce and terrible in Big Lion’s skin, said as usual to one of the hyaenas ‘Go and get into the boiling water.’ Who acts: hyaenas. 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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 (hyaenas), 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:pg5615:36:33 # text = When supper was being cooked that evening, before they all went to bed, the little hare, looking fierce and terrible in Big Lion’s skin, said as usual to one of the hyaenas ‘Go and get into the boiling water.’ 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 cooked cook VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ _ 12 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 21 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 Big Big PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 obl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 hyaenas hyaena NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 38 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 42 into into ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 boiling boiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cook** | past · passive | | supper | | | evening | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **go** | past | hyaenas *= hyaena* | | | bed and the little hare | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **look** | gerund | hyaenas *= hyaena* *not said here* | | | | | in Big Lion's skin; fierce *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in skin=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | hyaenas *= hyaena* *not said here* | | | | | as usual | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | | | one | | | of the hyaenas | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to one=Initial\_Location of hyaena=Destination | | 6 | **get** | infinitive | | | | the boiling water | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into water=Destination | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/34/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/)