The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 107
A little later, a girl in a shabby dress came into the field and walked up to Jesper.
Who acts: girl · What happens: come, walk up · To what, where: field, Jesper
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 (girl), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 little | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 came | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 later | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dress | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dress | det |
| 9 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dress | amod |
| 10 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 girl | nmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 field | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 walked | cc |
| 16 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 walked | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Jesper | case |
| 19 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 walked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a girl in a shabby dress | the field | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | walk up | past | a girl in a shabby dress not said here | Jesper | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to jesper=Result |
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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