The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 27
Mr. W. A. Craigie translated from the Scandinavian, ‘Jasper who herded the Hares.’
Who acts: W., Jasper · What happens: translate, herd · To what, where: Scandinavian, Hares
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (W., Jasper), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 W. | nmod:desc |
| 2 | W. | W. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 translated | nsubj |
| 3 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 W. | flat |
| 4 | Craigie | Craigie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 W. | flat |
| 5 | translated | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Scandinavian | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Scandinavian | det |
| 8 | Scandinavian | Scandinavian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 translated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 herded | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 herded | punct |
| 11 | Jasper | Jasper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 herded | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 herded | nsubj |
| 13 | herded | herd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 translated | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hares | det |
| 15 | Hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 herded | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 translated | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | past | W. Mr. | the Scandinavian | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Patient from scandinavian=Initial_State | ||||
| 2 | herd | past | Jasper | the Hares | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hare=Patient |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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