The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 157
‘In the next place,’ said Jesper, ‘there came a fat old fellow on the same errand.
Who acts: Jesper · What happens: say, come · To what, where: next place, fat old fellow, same errand · 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 place | amod |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 came | expl |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fellow | det |
| 15 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fellow | amod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fellow | amod |
| 17 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 errand | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 errand | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 errand | amod |
| 21 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fellow | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jesper | the next place | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in place=Manner | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Jesper not said here | a fat old fellow | the same errand; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fellow=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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