The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 143

‘Yesterday,’ he said, ‘when I was herding the hares, there came to me a girl, in a shabby dress, and begged me to give her one of them.

Who acts: Jesper, I, girl · What happens: say, herd, come, beg, give · To what, where: hares, me, one, girl · 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 (Jesper, I, girl), 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 Yesterday	punct
2	Yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yesterday	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yesterday	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 herding	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 herding	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 herding	advmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 herding	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 herding	aux
12	herding	herd	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hares	det
14	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 herding	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 came	expl
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 came	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 girl	det
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dress	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 dress	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dress	det
25	shabby	shabby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dress	amod
26	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 begged	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 begged	cc
29	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 begged	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 give	mark
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 begged	xcomp
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 give	iobj
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 give	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 one	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jesper				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	herd	past · progressive	I	the hares			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hare=Patient
3	come	past	a girl		me	there	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
4	beg speech: request	past	Jesper not said here		me		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jesper not said here	one of hares	girl		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient one=Theme

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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