The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 48

Jegu declared that nothing could be easier, and then taking off his hat, he thanked the dwarf heartily, and led his horses back to the farm.

Who acts: Jegu, nothing · What happens: declare, be, take off, thank, lead back · To what, where: hat, horses, farm

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jegu, nothing), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 easier	mark
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 easier	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 easier	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 easier	cop
7	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 declared	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taking	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 taking	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 taking	advmod
11	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 easier	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 taking	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hat	nmod:poss
14	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thanked	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thanked	nsubj
17	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 declared	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heartily	det
19	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 heartily	amod
20	heartily	heartily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thanked	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 led	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 led	cc
23	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 declared	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 horses	nmod:poss
25	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 led	obj
26	back	back	ADV	_	23 led	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 farm	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 farm	det
29	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 led	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	Jegu					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	could	nothing				easy property	tree rules
3	take off	gerund	nothing not said here	Jegu's hat		then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme
4	thank speech: thank	past	Jegu				heartily property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	lead back	past	Jegu not said here	Jegu's horses	the farm			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to farm=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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