The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 62
And in case she might not believe him, he lifted the cover and let her see them.
Who acts: princess, Jesper · What happens: not believe, lift, let, see · To what, where: Jesper, cover, princess, pearls
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 (princess, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lifted | cc |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 7 believe | mark |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 in | fixed |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 believe | advmod |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lifted | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 believe | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lifted | nsubj |
| 11 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cover | det |
| 13 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lifted | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lifted | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | might | princess | Jesper | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lift | past | Jesper | the cover | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Jesper not said here | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | princess not said here | pearls = pearl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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