The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 55

In a few minutes the ants had the field all to themselves; and their king made quite an eloquent speech to Jesper, thanking him for the service he had done them, and promising to assist him in any difficulty.

Who acts: ants, king, Jesper · What happens: have, make, thank, do, promise, assist · To what, where: field, Ants, eloquent speech, Jesper, difficulty

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 (ants, king, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 minutes	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 minutes	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 minutes	amod
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ants	det
6	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 themselves	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 themselves	case
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 had	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 king	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 king	cc
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 king	nmod:poss
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
17	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 king	acl
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 speech	advmod
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 speech	det
20	eloquent	eloquent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 speech	amod
21	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Jesper	case
23	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 speech	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thanking	punct
25	thanking	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 speech	appos
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thanking	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 service	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 service	det
29	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thanking	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 done	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 service	acl:relcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 done	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 promising	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 promising	cc
36	promising	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 thanking	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 assist	mark
38	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 promising	xcomp
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 assist	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 difficulty	case
41	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	42 difficulty	det
42	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 assist	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the ants	the field	Ants = ant		minute	Ants's king obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient
2	make	participle	Ants's king not said here	a eloquent speech				to Jesper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speech=Product
3	thank speech: thank	gerund			Jesper			for the service	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for service=Attribute
4	do	past · perfect	Jesper	Ants = ant					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
5	promise speech: promise	gerund							vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	assist not said to happen	to-infinitive			Jesper	any difficulty			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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