The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 15
The two elder brothers were much bigger and stronger than the youngest, but Jesper was far the cleverest of the three, though neither Peter nor Paul would admit this.
Who acts: two elder brothers, Jesper, Peter · What happens: be, admit · To what, where: this
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 (two elder brothers, Jesper, Peter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 brothers | nummod |
| 3 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brothers | amod |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bigger | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bigger | cop |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 bigger | advmod |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stronger | cc |
| 9 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 bigger | conj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 youngest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youngest | det |
| 12 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 bigger | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cleverest | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 cleverest | cc |
| 15 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cleverest | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cleverest | cop |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 cleverest | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cleverest | det |
| 19 | cleverest | clever | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 youngest | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 three | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 three | det |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 cleverest | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 admit | punct |
| 24 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 admit | mark |
| 25 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 Peter | det |
| 26 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 admit | nsubj |
| 27 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 Paul | cc |
| 28 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Peter | conj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 admit | aux |
| 30 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 bigger | conj |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 admit | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bigger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the two elder brothers | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the two elder brothers not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | Jesper | of the three; clever, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | admit speech: other | would | neither Peter nor Paul | this | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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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