The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 102
After that, Jesper allowed them to run about as they pleased, so long as they stayed in the field.
Who acts: Jesper, hares · What happens: allow, run, stay · To what, where: hares, field
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, hares), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 allowed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 4 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | nsubj |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 allowed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 run | mark |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 pleased | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pleased | nsubj |
| 12 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 about | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 long | advmod |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 run | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 stayed | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stayed | nsubj |
| 18 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 long | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 field | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 field | det |
| 21 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stayed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | Jesper | hares = hare | after that | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | run not said to happen | to-infinitive | hares = hare not said here | about, long property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | hares = hare | the field | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=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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