The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 134
‘Well, well,’ said the king; ‘you have done that very well indeed.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, do · To what, where: king, that · 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 (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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 done | obj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 well | advmod |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 done | advmod |
| 18 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 14 done | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | you | that | indeed, well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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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