The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 116
This time it was a stout old woman in the dress of a peasant, who also was after a hare to provide a dinner for unexpected visitors.
Who acts: herd, peasant · What happens: be, provide · To what, where: stout old woman, dress, dinner
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 (herd, peasant), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 woman | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woman | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 6 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 dress | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dress | det |
| 11 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woman | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 peasant | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 peasant | det |
| 14 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dress | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hare | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hare | nsubj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 21 hare | advmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 hare | cop |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 hare | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hare | det |
| 21 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 peasant | appos |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 provide | mark |
| 23 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hare | acl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dinner | det |
| 25 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 provide | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 visitors | case |
| 27 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 visitors | amod |
| 28 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 provide | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | herd | a stout old woman | the dress of a peasant | time | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | past | a peasant | after a hare | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | provide | to-infinitive | herd not said here | a dinner | for unexpected visitors | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition dinner=Theme for visitor=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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