The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 49
Jesper made no reply, but put his pearls in the little basket and walked off.
Who acts: Jesper · What happens: make, put, walk off, pearl · To what, where: reply, pearls, little basket
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 (Jesper), 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 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 reply | det |
| 4 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pearls | nmod:poss |
| 9 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 basket | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 basket | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 basket | amod |
| 13 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 walked | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Jesper | no reply | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product | ||||
| 2 | put | past | Jesper not said here | Jesper's pearls | the little basket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme in basket=Destination | |||
| 3 | walk off | past | Jesper not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pearl | Jesper | nom pearl «possession 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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