The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 140
‘But how are we to know when the tub is full?’ said Jesper.
Who acts: we, tub, Jesper · What happens: be, say · 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 (we, tub, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 know | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 know | advmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | cop |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 full | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tub | det |
| 10 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 full | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 full | cop |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | we | know property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the tub | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jesper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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