The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 47
The third day came, and with it came Jesper’s turn to try his fortune.
Who acts: third day, more · What happens: come, try · To what, where: turn, fortune
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 (third day, more), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 turn | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Jesper | case |
| 12 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 try | mark |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 try | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the third day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | more | Jesper's turn | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location turn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | more not said here | Paul's fortune | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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