The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 29
‘Cinders,’ said Peter promptly, and walked on, adding to himself, ‘Take that for being so inquisitive.’
Who acts: Cinders · What happens: say, walk on, add, take, be · To what, where: king, that · 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 (Cinders), 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 | _ | 2 Cinders | punct |
| 2 | Cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cinders | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cinders | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 walked | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 adding | punct |
| 13 | adding | add | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 walked | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 adding | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Take | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Take | punct |
| 18 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 walked | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Take | obj |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 inquisitive | mark |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 inquisitive | cop |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 inquisitive | advmod |
| 23 | inquisitive | inquisitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Take | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cinders | promptly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | walk on | past | Cinders not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | gerund | Cinders not said here | king | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to himself=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | Cinders not said here | that | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | gerund | Cinders not said here | inquisitive property | tree rules |
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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