The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 3
But as it was all his own, he was very proud of it, and often wondered how it would get along without him.
Who acts: kingdom, king · What happens: be, wonder, get along · 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 (kingdom, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 proud | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 own | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 own | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 own | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 own | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 own | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 proud | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 own | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 proud | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 proud | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 proud | advmod |
| 12 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 proud | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wondered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wondered | cc |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 wondered | advmod |
| 18 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 proud | conj |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 get | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wondered | ccomp |
| 23 | along | along | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | kingdom | own property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | king | of kingdom; proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | past | king not said here | often property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get along | would | kingdom | without king; along property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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