The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 21
Next morning Peter put his pearls in a little basket, and set off for the king’s palace.
Who acts: Peter, Hereupon · What happens: put, set off, pearl · To what, where: pearls, little basket
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 (Peter, Hereupon), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pearls | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 basket | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 basket | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 basket | amod |
| 10 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 palace | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Peter | Hereupon's pearls | a little basket | morning | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme in basket=Destination | ||
| 2 | set off | past | Peter not said here | for the king's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pearl | Hereupon | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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