The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 101

However, he blew the whistle, and in a few minutes the hares came bounding through the hedge on all the four sides of the field, and before long were all sitting round him in a circle.

Who acts: Jesper · What happens: blow, come, bound, sit · To what, where: whistle, hedge, circle

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), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 blew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whistle	det
6	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 minutes	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 minutes	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 minutes	amod
12	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hares	det
14	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 minutes	conj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blew	conj
16	bounding	bound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 hedge	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hedge	det
19	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bounding	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	24 sides	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sides	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sides	det
23	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 sides	nummod
24	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bounding	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 field	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 field	det
27	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sides	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sitting	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sitting	cc
30	before	before	ADP	_	31 long	case
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sitting	obl
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sitting	aux
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 sitting	advmod
34	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 blew	advcl
35	round	round	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sitting	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 circle	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 circle	det
39	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	Jesper	the whistle			however property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
2	come	past	Jesper not said here			minute		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bound	gerund	Jesper not said here		the hedge		on all four sides of the field	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hedge=Trajectory
4	sit	past · progressive	Jesper not said here		a circle	before long	round Jesper; all property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before long=Location

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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