The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 104

It was therefore with great surprise and annoyance that he now learned of the mysterious return of the hares and the likelihood of Jesper carrying out his task with success.

Who acts: face, Jesper, likelihood, hares · What happens: be, learn, carry out, return, task · To what, where: task

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 (face, Jesper, likelihood, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 surprise	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprise	cop
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	6 surprise	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 surprise	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surprise	amod
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 annoyance	cc
8	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surprise	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 learned	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 learned	nsubj
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 learned	advmod
12	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surprise	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 return	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 return	det
15	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 return	amod
16	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 learned	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 hares	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hares	det
19	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 return	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 likelihood	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 likelihood	det
22	likelihood	likelihood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hares	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Jesper	case
24	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 likelihood	nmod
25	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 likelihood	acl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 carrying	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 task	nmod:poss
28	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carrying	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 success	case
30	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carrying	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	face			with great surprise and annoyance; therefore property	tree rules
2	learn	past	Jesper		now	of the mysterious return of the hares and the likelihood of Jesper	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of return=Topic
3	carry out	gerund	the likelihood of Jesper not said here	Jesper's task		with success	vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
4	return		the hares and the likelihood of Jesper				nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent
5	task		Jesper				nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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