The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 125

‘Young man,’ said he, ‘I want one of those hares; name your price, but I MUST have one of them.’

Who acts: Young man, man, I · What happens: say, want, name, have · To what, where: one, price · 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 (Young man, man, I), 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	_	3 man	punct
2	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 want	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 hares	case
14	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 hares	det
15	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 name	punct
17	name	name	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 price	nmod:poss
19	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 name	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 have	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
23	MUST	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 have	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 one	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Young man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	present	man	one of that hares	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
3	name	infinitive	Young man not said here	your price	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme
4	have	must	I	one of hares	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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