The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 142

This seemed to everybody present rather unfair, but no one liked to be the first to say so, and Jesper had to put the best face he could on the matter, and begin his story.

Who acts: This, Jesper · What happens: seem, like, be, say, have, put · To what, where: one, best face, story · 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 (This, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 present	case
4	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 present	compound
5	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	obl
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 unfair	advmod
7	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 present	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seemed	xcomp
12	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 one	acl
13	to	to	PART	_	16 first	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 first	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 first	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 liked	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 say	mark
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 first	acl
19	so	so	ADV	_	18 say	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 put	mark
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 face	det
27	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 face	amod
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 could	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 put	advcl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 matter	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 matter	det
33	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 could	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 begin	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 begin	cc
36	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	advcl
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 story	nmod:poss
38	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 begin	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	This	no one	to everybody present	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	like	participle		no one not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	to-infinitive			first property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	Jesper			tree rules
6	put	to-infinitive	Jesper not said here	the best face		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent face=Goal
7	begin	infinitive	Jesper not said here	Jesper's story		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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