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title: The little hare, who had taken refuge within, called out again, ‘Big… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The little hare, who had taken refuge within, called out again, ‘Big Lion, be quick and come down and dine with me.’ Who acts: little hare. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 8

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The little hare, who had taken refuge within, called out again, ‘Big Lion, be quick and come down and dine with me.’

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**Who acts:** little hare · **What happens:** take, call out, be, come down, dine · **To what, where:** refuge

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. 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), 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:pg5615:36:8
# text = The little hare, who had taken refuge within, called out again, ‘Big Lion, be quick and come down and dine with me.’
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	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect | the little hare | refuge |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | the little hare *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | the little hare |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come down** | infinitive | the little hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dine** | infinitive | the little hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with me | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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