The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 108

‘Do give me one of those hares,’ she said; ‘we have just got visitors who are going to stay to dinner, and there’s nothing we can give them to eat.’

Who acts: you, girl, we, visitors · What happens: give, say, get, go, stay, eat · To what, where: one, visitors · 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 (you, girl, we, visitors), 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	_	3 give	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 give	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 hares	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 hares	det
8	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 give	parataxis
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 got	aux
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 got	advmod
18	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 said	ccomp
19	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 got	obj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 going	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 going	aux
22	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 visitors	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 stay	mark
24	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 going	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 dinner	case
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stay	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 ’s	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ’s	cc
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 ’s	expl
30	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 give	conj
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 ’s	obj
32	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 give	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 nothing	acl:relcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 eat	mark
37	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 give	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	imperative · do-support	you not said here		one of that hares		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	girl				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	present · perfect	we	visitors			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visitor=Stimulus
4	go	present · progressive	visitors				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	stay	to-infinitive	visitors not said here			to dinner	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	give	can	we		visitors = visitor		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	eat	to-infinitive	we not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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