The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 41
‘I have more important business on hand than mixing myself up in your quarrels.’
Who acts: I, hand, your · What happens: have, mix up, quarrel · To what, where: important business, hand, myself, quarrels
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, hand, your), 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 | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 important | advmod |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 business | amod |
| 6 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 business | nmod |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 mixing | mark |
| 10 | mixing | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hand | acl |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 mixing | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 mixing | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 quarrels | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 quarrels | nmod:poss |
| 15 | quarrels | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mixing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | important business | hand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient | |||
| 2 | mix up | gerund | hand not said here | myself | your quarrels | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | |||
| 3 | quarrel | your | nom quarrel «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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