The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 153
‘H-m,’ said the king; ‘that is something, but the tub isn’t full yet.’
Who acts: that, tub · What happens: say, be, not be · To what, where: king, something · 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 (that, tub), 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 | _ | 4 m | punct |
| 2 | H | H | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 m | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 H | punct |
| 4 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 m | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 m | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 something | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 something | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 something | cop |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 full | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 full | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tub | det |
| 18 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 full | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 full | cop |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 full | advmod |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 something | amod |
| 22 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 full | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 something | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | something | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | the tub | yet | full property | 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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