The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 45
‘Very well, cinders be it,’ the old woman shouted after him, but Paul neither looked back nor answered her.
Who acts: cinders, Paul · What happens: be, shout, look back, answer · To what, where: insolent, woman
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 | _ | 5 cinders | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 cinders | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shouted | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 it | cop |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cinders | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cinders | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cinders | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shouted | nsubj |
| 13 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shouted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 18 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 20 looked | advmod |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shouted | conj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 looked | advmod |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 answered | cc |
| 23 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 looked | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 answered | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | insolent | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | cinders | after Paul | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look back | past | Paul | neither property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | Paul not said here | woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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