The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 61
‘Pearls,’ said Jesper; ‘I’m going to the palace to win the princess with them.’
Who acts: Jesper, I · What happens: say, be, go, win · To what, where: palace, princess · 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, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pearls | punct |
| 2 | Pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pearls | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’m | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’m | nsubj |
| 10 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ’m | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 win | mark |
| 16 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 going | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 win | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 win | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jesper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | I not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | win | to-infinitive | I not said here | the princess | with pearls = pearl | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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