The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 118

‘Very well, you shall have a hare, and pay nothing for it either, if you will only walk round me on tiptoe, look up to the sky, and cackle like a hen.’

Who acts: you · What happens: have, pay, walk, look up · To what, where: hare, nothing, tiptoe

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), 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 have	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 have	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hare	det
9	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pay	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pay	cc
12	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	conj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 pay	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 nothing	nmod
16	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 pay	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 walk	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 walk	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 walk	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 walk	aux
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 walk	advmod
22	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pay	parataxis
23	round	round	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 walk	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 tiptoe	case
26	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 walk	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 look	punct
28	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 walk	parataxis
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 look	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 sky	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sky	det
32	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 look	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 cackle	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 cackle	cc
35	cackle	cackle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 hen	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hen	det
38	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cackle	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	shall	you	a hare		cackle like a hen obl; well property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Patient
2	pay	infinitive	you not said here	nothing		for last; either property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent nothing=Asset for it=Theme
3	walk a condition, not said to happen	future	you		tiptoe	round me	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round i=Trajectory
4	look up	infinitive				to the sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sky=Theme

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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