The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 70

Jesper thanked her for the whistle, though he did not see of what use it was to be to him just then, and held on his way to the palace.

Who acts: Jesper, whistle · What happens: thank, not see, use, be, hold · To what, where: woman, way

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, whistle), 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	2 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 whistle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 whistle	det
6	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 see	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thanked	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 see	obl
15	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 him	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 him	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	21 him	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 him	cop
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 use	ccomp
22	just	just	ADV	_	23 then	advmod
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 use	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 held	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 held	cc
26	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 see	parataxis
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 way	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 way	nmod:poss
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 held	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 palace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 way	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	Jesper	woman			for the whistle	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for whistle=Attribute
2	not see	past · do-support	Jesper					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	use	present				then		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	whistle				to Jesper	tree rules
5	hold	participle			Jesper's way to the palace			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location

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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