The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 105

‘One of them must be got out of his hands by hook or crook,’ said he.

Who acts: Jesper · What happens: get out, say · To what, where: One, hands · 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), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
2	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 got	nsubj:outer
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 One	nmod
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 got	aux:pass
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	ccomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 hands	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hands	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 hook	case
13	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hands	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 crook	cc
15	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hook	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	must · passive		One of hares		Jesper's hands by hook or crook			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Jesper						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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