The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 34

Peter was so amazed that he could say nothing for himself, but the king said quite enough for both, and Peter was glad to get away home again as fast as his legs would carry him.

Who acts: Peter, thing, king, legs · What happens: be, say, get away, carry · To what, where: nothing, thing · 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 (Peter, thing, king, legs), 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 amazed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amazed	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 amazed	advmod
4	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 say	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 say	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 amazed	advcl
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 say	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 nothing	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 amazed	conj
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 enough	advmod
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 said	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 both	case
20	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	16 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 glad	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 glad	cc
23	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 glad	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 glad	cop
25	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 amazed	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 get	mark
27	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 glad	advcl
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 get	advmod
29	home	home	ADV	_	27 get	advmod
30	again	again	ADV	_	32 fast	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 fast	advmod
32	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 get	advmod
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 carry	mark
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 legs	nmod:poss
35	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 carry	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 carry	aux
37	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fast	advcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 carry	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 amazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Peter		amazed property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	could	thing	nothing	for thing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	the king		for both; enough property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Peter		glad property	tree rules
5	get away	to-infinitive	Peter not said here		away, fast, home property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	carry	would	thing's legs	thing		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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