The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 58
Jesper was inclined to laugh at this, but he kept a grave face, said he would remember the offer, and walked on.
Who acts: Jesper · What happens: incline, laugh, keep, say, remember, walk on · To what, where: Jesper, this, grave face, offer · 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 (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 | 3 inclined | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inclined | aux:pass |
| 3 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 laugh | mark |
| 5 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 inclined | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 laugh | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 kept | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 inclined | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 face | det |
| 13 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 face | amod |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kept | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 remember | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 remember | aux |
| 19 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 offer | det |
| 21 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remember | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 walked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 walked | cc |
| 24 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kept | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADV | _ | 24 walked | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inclined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline | past · passive | Jesper | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh | to-infinitive | this | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | past | Jesper | a grave face | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Jesper not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | remember | would | Jesper | the offer | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent offer=Theme | ||||
| 6 | walk on | past | Jesper not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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