The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 161

When the old king got time to think over it, he was quite convinced that his kingdom would be safe in Jesper’s hands if he looked after the people as well as he herded the hares.

Who acts: old king, king, kingdom · What happens: get, think, be, look, herd · To what, where: love, hands, hares

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 (old king, king, kingdom), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 think	mark
8	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 time	acl
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 think	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 convinced	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 convinced	cop
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	15 convinced	advmod
15	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 safe	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 kingdom	nmod:poss
18	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 safe	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 safe	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 safe	cop
21	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 convinced	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 hands	case
23	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 hands	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Jesper	case
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 safe	obl
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 looked	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 convinced	advcl
29	after	after	ADP	_	31 people	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 people	det
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 looked	obl
32	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	36 herded	cc
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 as	fixed
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 herded	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 herded	nsubj
36	herded	herd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 looked	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hares	det
38	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 herded	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the old king			time		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	the old king not said here		love			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	king				convinced property	tree rules
4	is	would	king's kingdom		Jesper's hands		safe property	tree rules
5	look a condition, not said to happen	past	king			after the people		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	herd	past	king	the hares				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hare=Patient

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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