The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 48

He got up and had his breakfast, while Peter and Paul lay in bed and made rude remarks, telling him that he would come back quicker than he went, for if they had failed it could not be supposed that he would succeed.

Who acts: Paul, Peter · What happens: get up, have, lie, make, tell, come back · To what, where: breakfast, bed, rude remarks, Paul · 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 (Paul, Peter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 got	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 breakfast	nmod:poss
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 lay	mark
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Paul	cc
12	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Peter	conj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 bed	case
15	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	conj
18	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 remarks	amod
19	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 made	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 telling	punct
21	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 made	advcl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 telling	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 come	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 come	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 come	aux
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 telling	advcl
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 come	xcomp
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	31 went	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 quicker	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 failed	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 failed	mark
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 failed	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 failed	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 failed	aux
37	failed	fail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 made	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 supposed	nsubj:pass
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 supposed	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 supposed	advmod
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 supposed	aux:pass
42	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 failed	advcl
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 succeed	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 succeed	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 succeed	aux
46	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 supposed	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get up	past	Paul					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	past	Paul not said here	Paul's breakfast				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
3	lie	past	Peter and Paul			bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
4	make	past	Peter and Paul not said here	rude remarks				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	Peter and Paul not said here		Paul			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	come back	would	Paul				quick property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	past	Paul					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	fail a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Peter					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	not suppose	could · passive		breakfast				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
10	succeed	would	Paul					vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=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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