The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 130

It went very much against the grain, one could see, but after some efforts the old fellow had his head on the grass and his heels in the air; the whacking and the ‘Hurrah’ were rather feeble, but Jesper was not very exacting, and the hare was handed over.

Who acts: head, one, old fellow, whacking, Jesper · What happens: go, see, have, be, not exact, hand over · To what, where: grain, head, grass, hare

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 (head, one, old fellow, whacking), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 grain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grain	det
7	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
9	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 efforts	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 efforts	det
16	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fellow	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fellow	amod
19	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 grass	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grass	det
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 heels	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 heels	nmod:poss
28	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 grass	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 air	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 air	det
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 heels	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 feeble	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 whacking	det
34	whacking	whacking	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 feeble	nsubj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 Hurrah	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Hurrah	det
37	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 Hurrah	punct
38	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 whacking	conj
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 Hurrah	punct
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 feeble	cop
41	rather	rather	ADV	_	42 feeble	advmod
42	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 exacting	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 exacting	cc
45	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 exacting	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 exacting	aux
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 exacting	advmod
48	very	very	ADV	_	49 exacting	advmod
49	exacting	exact	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 feeble	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 handed	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 handed	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 hare	det
53	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 handed	nsubj:pass
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 handed	aux:pass
55	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 feeble	conj
56	over	over	ADP	_	55 handed	compound:prt
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	head		the grain			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against grain=Location
2	see	could	one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	past	the old fellow	Jesper's head	the grass and Jesper's heels in the air	after some efforts		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	is	past	the whacking and the Hurrah				feeble property	tree rules
5	not exact	past · progressive	Jesper					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	hand over	past · passive		the hare				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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