The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 144
She got the hare, but she had to give me a kiss for it; AND THAT GIRL WAS THE PRINCESS.
Who acts: girl · What happens: get, have, give, be · To what, where: hare, kiss, me, PRINCESS
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 had | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kiss | det |
| 13 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 PRINCESS | punct |
| 17 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 PRINCESS | cc |
| 18 | THAT | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 GIRL | det |
| 19 | GIRL | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 PRINCESS | nsubj |
| 20 | WAS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 PRINCESS | cop |
| 21 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 PRINCESS | det |
| 22 | PRINCESS | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | girl | the hare | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hare=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | girl not said here | a kiss | me | for kiss | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient kiss=Theme for it=Asset | ||
| 4 | is a | past | that GIRL | the PRINCESS | 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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