The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 114
Scarcely had she got outside the field, however, when Jesper blew his whistle, and immediately the hare wriggled out of its prison like an eel, and went back to its master at the top of its speed.
Who acts: Scarcely, Jesper · What happens: get, blow, wriggle, go back, whistle · To what, where: hare, whistle, prison, top
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 (Scarcely, 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 7 field | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 however | punct |
| 9 | however | however | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blew | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 blew | advmod |
| 12 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 blew | nsubj |
| 13 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 however | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 whistle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blew | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hare | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hare | cc |
| 18 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 hare | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hare | det |
| 20 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 21 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hare | acl |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 prison | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 prison | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 prison | nmod:poss |
| 25 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wriggled | obl |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 eel | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 eel | det |
| 28 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 prison | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 went | cc |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 master | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 master | nmod:poss |
| 35 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 top | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 top | det |
| 38 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 speed | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 speed | nmod:poss |
| 41 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 top | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Scarcely | the hare | outside the field; however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | blow | past | Jesper | Jesper's whistle | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wriggle | participle | the hare not said here | whistle's prison like a eel | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go back | past | Scarcely not said here | the top of whistle's speed | to whistle's master result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to master=Result | |||
| 5 | whistle | Jesper | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=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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