The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 25
‘I have no time to waste on other people’s affairs,’ said Peter; ‘just fight away as best you can;’ and with that he walked off and left them.
Who acts: I, Peter, king · What happens: have, waste, say, fight away, walk off, leave · To what, where: affairs, Peter · 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 (I, Peter, king), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 waste | mark |
| 7 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 affairs | case |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 people | case |
| 12 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waste | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fight | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 fight | punct |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 fight | advmod |
| 20 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 fight | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 best | advmod |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 fight | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 can | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 best | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 fight | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 fight | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 walked | cc |
| 29 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 32 walked | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 walked | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 walked | nsubj |
| 32 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 walked | compound:prt |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 left | cc |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 walked | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 left | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | waste | to-infinitive | I not said here | on other people's affairs goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on affair=Goal | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fight away | infinitive | away property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | walk off | past | king | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | leave | past | king not said here | Peter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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