The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 156
‘Do you suppose I would do anything for HIM?’ said the king, and then hurriedly ordered Jesper to go on.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: suppose, do, say, order, go on · To what, where: anything, king, Jesper · 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 (you, I), 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 suppose | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suppose | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 suppose | nsubj |
| 4 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 suppose | ccomp |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 HIM | case |
| 10 | HIM | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ordered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ordered | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 ordered | advmod |
| 19 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 20 ordered | advmod |
| 20 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 21 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ordered | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ordered | xcomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | would | I | anything | for king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | order | past | Jesper | then | hurriedly property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent jesper=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | go on not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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