The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 71
When Jesper presented his pearls to the king there were exclamations of wonder and delight from everyone who saw them.
Who acts: Jesper, exclamations · What happens: present, be, see, pearl, exclaim · To what, where: pearls, king, exclamations, wonder
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, exclamations), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 presented | advmod |
| 2 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 presented | nsubj |
| 3 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 were | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pearls | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 presented | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 presented | obl |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | exclamations | exclamation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wonder | case |
| 13 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclamations | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 delight | cc |
| 15 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wonder | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 everyone | case |
| 17 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 delight | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | Jesper | Jesper's pearls | the king | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pearl=Theme to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | be | past | exclamations of wonder and delight from everyone | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | exclamations = exclamation | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | pearl | Jesper | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | exclaim | wonder and delight from everyone | nom exclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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