The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 44

‘Cinders,’ said Paul, who was quite as insolent as his brother, and quite as anxious to teach other people good manners.

Who acts: Cinders, Paul · What happens: say, be, teach · To what, where: insolent, good manners, other people · 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, 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	_	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	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 insolent	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 insolent	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 insolent	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 insolent	advmod
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 insolent	advmod
12	insolent	insolent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Paul	appos
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 brother	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brother	nmod:poss
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 insolent	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 anxious	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 anxious	cc
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 anxious	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 anxious	advmod
20	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 teach	mark
22	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 anxious	advcl
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 teach	obj
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 manners	amod
26	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	22 teach	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Cinders				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Paul	insolent		as Paul's brother	tree rules
3	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	Cinders not said here	good manners	other people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient manners=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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