The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 66

‘Yes, of course,’ said Jesper, ‘I hadn’t thought of that’; and he handed over the whole of his lunch to the old woman.

Who acts: Jesper, I · What happens: say, not think, hand · To what, where: old woman · 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	_	8 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 of	punct
4	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	2 Yes	advmod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 thought	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thought	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 thought	advmod
15	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 thought	obl
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 handed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 handed	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 handed	nsubj
22	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 whole	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 whole	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 handed	xcomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 lunch	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lunch	nmod:poss
28	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whole	nmod
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 woman	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 woman	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 handed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jesper			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not think speech: other	past · perfect	I		of that	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hand	past	Jesper	the old woman	whole property	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to woman=Destination

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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