The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 14
Peter and Paul were grown men, while Jesper was just coming to manhood.
Who acts: Jesper · What happens: grow, come · To what, where: Peter, manhood
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), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grown | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Paul | cc |
| 3 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Peter | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux:pass |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grown | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 coming | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 coming | mark |
| 9 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 coming | aux |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 coming | advmod |
| 12 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 grown | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 manhood | case |
| 14 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coming | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · passive | Peter and Paul | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary man=Product | |||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | Jesper | manhood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to manhood=Initial_Location |
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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