The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 132
Evening came, and home came Jesper with the hundred hares behind him.
Who acts: Evening, home · What happens: come
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 (Evening, home), 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 | Evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 7 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hares | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hares | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 hares | nummod |
| 11 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hares | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | home | with the hundred hares behind Jesper | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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