The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 40
‘I don’t care though you get the worst of it to-day too,’ said Paul.
Who acts: I, you, Paul · What happens: not care, get, say · 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, you, Paul), 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 | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 care | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 care | advmod |
| 5 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 care | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 worst | det |
| 10 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 get | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 worst | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | get | present | you | day | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Paul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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