The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 121

‘Just as you like,’ said Jesper; ‘you know best whether you want the hare or not.’

Who acts: you, Jesper · What happens: like, say, know, want · To what, where: hare · 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 (you, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	Just	just	ADV	_	5 like	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 like	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
14	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 know	advmod
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 want	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 want	nsubj
17	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 know	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hare	det
19	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 want	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 not	cc
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 want	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	past	Jesper			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	you		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	want	present	you	the hare		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hare=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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