The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 100

He remembered what she had said about the virtues of the whistle, but was rather doubtful whether its powers would extend to a hundred hares, each of which had gone in a different direction and might be several miles distant by this time.

Who acts: Jesper, woman, powers, each · What happens: remember, say, be, extend, go · To what, where: hundred hares, different direction · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jesper, woman, powers, each), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 remembered	obj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 what	acl:relcl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 virtues	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 virtues	det
9	virtues	virtue	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 whistle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whistle	det
12	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 virtues	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 doubtful	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 doubtful	cc
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 doubtful	cop
16	rather	rather	ADV	_	17 doubtful	advmod
17	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remembered	parataxis
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 extend	mark
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 powers	nmod:poss
20	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 extend	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 extend	aux
22	extend	extend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 doubtful	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 hares	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hares	det
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 hares	nummod
26	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 extend	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gone	punct
28	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	32 gone	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 gone	obl
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	aux
32	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 remembered	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 direction	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 direction	det
35	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 direction	amod
36	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gone	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 distant	cc
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 distant	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 distant	cop
40	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 miles	amod
41	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 distant	obl:unmarked
42	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gone	conj
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 time	case
44	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 time	det
45	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 distant	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	Jesper					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	woman				about the virtues of the whistle	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past					doubtful property	tree rules
4	extend	would	whistle's powers	a hundred hares				vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hare=Recipient
5	go	past · perfect	each		a different direction			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of which=Initial_Location
6	is	might	each not said here			time	several miles obl:unmarked; distant property	tree rules

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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