The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 122
There was no help for it, and a pretty figure the old lady made in carrying out her task; the cackling wasn’t very well done, but Jesper said it would do, and gave her the hare.
Who acts: help, pretty figure, Jesper, cackling, lady · What happens: be, lady, make, carry out, not do, say · To what, where: old lady, task, cackling, hare, lady · 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 (help, pretty figure, Jesper, cackling), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 said | conj |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 help | det |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 help | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lady | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lady | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 figure | det |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 figure | amod |
| 11 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lady | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lady | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lady | amod |
| 14 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lady | acl |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 carrying | mark |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 made | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 carrying | compound:prt |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 task | nmod:poss |
| 20 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 done | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cackling | det |
| 23 | cackling | cackling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 done | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 done | aux:pass |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 done | advmod |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 well | advmod |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 done | advmod |
| 28 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 said | cc |
| 31 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 said | nsubj |
| 32 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 do | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 do | aux |
| 35 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 said | ccomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gave | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 gave | cc |
| 38 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 said | conj |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gave | iobj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 hare | det |
| 41 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gave | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no help for leave | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lady | a pretty figure | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | participle | the old lady not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | carry out | gerund | lady's task | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not do | past · passive | the cackling | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Jesper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | do | would | cackling | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | give | past | Jesper not said here | the hare | lady | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hare=Theme | |||
| 9 | task | lady | nom task «act transitive»: 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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