The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 124

The next to appear on the same errand was a fat old fellow in the dress of a groom: it was the royal livery he wore, and he plainly thought a good deal of himself.

Who acts: whistle, Jesper · What happens: appear, be, wear, think, deal · To what, where: fat old fellow, same errand, royal livery, good deal, Jesper

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 (whistle, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 next	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 appear	mark
4	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 next	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 errand	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 errand	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 errand	amod
8	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fellow	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fellow	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fellow	det
11	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fellow	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fellow	amod
13	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appear	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 dress	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dress	det
16	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fellow	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 groom	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 groom	det
19	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dress	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 livery	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 livery	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 livery	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 livery	det
24	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 livery	amod
25	livery	livery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fellow	conj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wore	nsubj
27	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 livery	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 thought	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 thought	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 thought	nsubj
31	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	32 thought	advmod
32	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fellow	acl
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 deal	det
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 deal	amod
35	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 thought	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 himself	case
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 deal	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 next	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	to-infinitive					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		a fat old fellow and the royal livery	the same errand	in the dress of a groom	tree rules
3	is a	past	whistle	the royal livery			tree rules
4	wear	past	Jesper	the royal livery not said here			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent livery=Source
5	think speech: other	past	Jesper	a good deal of Jesper		plainly property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deal=Theme
6	deal			Jesper			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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