The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 158

He was very proud and dignified, but in order to get the hare he actually stood on his head, whacked his heels together, and cried “Hurrah”; and that old fellow was the----’

Who acts: Jesper, old fellow · What happens: be, get, stand, whack, cry · To what, where: hare, head, heels, Hurrah

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, old fellow), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 proud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dignified	cc
6	dignified	dignified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 proud	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 whacked	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 whacked	cc
9	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 get	mark
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 in	fixed
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 whacked	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hare	det
14	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stood	nsubj
16	actually	actually	ADV	_	17 stood	advmod
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hare	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
22	whacked	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heels	nmod:poss
24	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 whacked	obj
25	together	together	ADV	_	22 whacked	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cried	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cried	cc
28	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 whacked	conj
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 Hurrah	punct
30	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 cried	obj
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 Hurrah	punct
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 was	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 was	cc
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 fellow	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fellow	amod
36	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 was	nsubj
37	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 was	det
39	----	----	PUNCT	_	4 proud	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 proud	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jesper			proud property	tree rules
2	be		Jesper not said here				tree rules
3	get	to-infinitive		the hare			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hare=Stimulus
4	stand	past	Jesper	the hare not said here	Jesper's head	actually property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hare=Theme on head=Destination
5	whack	past		Jesper's heels		together property	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Patient
6	cry speech: express	past		Hurrah			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic
7	be	past	that old fellow				vn exist-47.1 «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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