The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 126

‘All right,’ said Jesper; ‘you can have one at an easy rate.

Who acts: Jesper, you · What happens: say, have · To what, where: one, easy rate · 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 (Jesper, 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	_	3 right	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 right	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 have	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 rate	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 rate	det
16	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rate	amod
17	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 one	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jesper						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	have	can	you	one		a easy rate			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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