The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 127
Just stand on your head, whack your heels together, and cry “Hurrah,” and the hare is yours.’
Who acts: you, hare · What happens: stand, whack, cry, be · To what, where: head, heels, Hurrah, yours
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, hare), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 stand | advmod |
| 2 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 head | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stand | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 whack | punct |
| 7 | whack | whack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 stand | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heels | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 whack | obj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 whack | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cry | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cry | cc |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 stand | conj |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hurrah | punct |
| 15 | Hurrah | Hurrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cry | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hurrah | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hurrah | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 yours | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hare | det |
| 20 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yours | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 yours | cop |
| 22 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Hurrah | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stand | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | imperative | you not said here | your head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location | ||||
| 2 | whack | infinitive | you not said here | your heels | together property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Patient | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | infinitive | you not said here | Hurrah | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the hare | yours | tree rules |
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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