The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 141
‘Don’t you trouble about that,’ said the king; ‘that’s my part of the business.’
Who acts: you, that · What happens: do, not trouble, say, be · To what, where: king, part · 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, that), 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 trouble | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 trouble | nsubj |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 trouble | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 part | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 part | punct |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 part | nsubj |
| 16 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 part | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 part | nmod:poss |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 business | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 business | det |
| 21 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 part | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not trouble | you | about that | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | that | my part | of the business | tree rules |
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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