The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 110
‘For one thing, they’re not mine; for another, a great deal depends on my having them all here in the evening.’
Who acts: visitors, great deal, my · What happens: not be, depend, have · To what, where: mine, visitors
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 (visitors, great deal, my), 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 ’re | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 thing | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thing | nummod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ’re | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ’re | nsubj |
| 7 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ’re | advmod |
| 9 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ’re | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 depends | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 another | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 depends | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 another | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 deal | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 deal | amod |
| 16 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 depends | nsubj |
| 17 | depends | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ’re | conj |
| 18 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 20 having | mark |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 having | nsubj |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 depends | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 having | obj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 having | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 evening | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 evening | det |
| 26 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 having | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’re | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ’re | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not does | present | visitors = visitor | mine | for one thing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | depend | present | a great deal | for another | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | my | visitors = visitor | here | evening | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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