The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 129
‘Oh, very well,’ said Jesper, ‘you needn’t unless you like, you know; but then you won’t get the hare.’
Who acts: Jesper, you · What happens: say, not need, like, know, not get · To what, where: hare · 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Oh | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 need | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 need | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 need | nsubj |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 need | advmod |
| 15 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 17 like | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 like | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 need | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 get | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 get | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 get | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 get | nsubj |
| 25 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 get | aux |
| 26 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 get | advmod |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hare | det |
| 29 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 get | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not need | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not get | future | you | the hare | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hare=Stimulus |
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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