The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 113
He could see that she didn’t quite care for this, but she consented to the bargain, and gave him the kiss, and went away with a hare in her apron.
Who acts: deal, girl · What happens: see, not care, consent, give, go away · To what, where: kiss, deal, apron · 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 (deal, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 care | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 care | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 care | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 care | advmod |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 care | advmod |
| 9 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 this | case |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 care | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 consented | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 consented | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 consented | nsubj |
| 15 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 bargain | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bargain | det |
| 18 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 consented | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 consented | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | iobj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kiss | det |
| 24 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gave | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 hare | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hare | det |
| 31 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 apron | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 apron | nmod:poss |
| 34 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | deal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not care | past · do-support | girl | for this | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for this=Theme | ||||
| 3 | consent | past | girl | to the bargain | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bargain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the kiss | deal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go away | past | girl's apron | with a hare; away property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with hare=Beneficiary |
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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