The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 149

‘After that,’ said Jesper, ‘a stout old woman, in a peasant’s dress, came and begged for a hare.

Who acts: Jesper · What happens: say, come, beg · 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), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	After	after	ADP	_	3 that	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 that	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 that	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 woman	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 woman	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
11	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Jesper	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dress	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 dress	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 peasant	det
17	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dress	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 peasant	case
19	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Jesper	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 begged	cc
23	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 hare	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hare	det
26	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 begged	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jesper	after that		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	Jesper not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past	Jesper not said here		for a hare	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for hare=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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