The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 72

It was not pleasant, however, to discover that Jesper was a mere fisher-lad; that wasn’t the kind of son-in-law that the king had expected, and he said so to the queen.

Who acts: whistle, Jesper, that · What happens: not be, discover, be, expect, say · To what, where: mere fisher lad, kind, law, queen · 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 (whistle, Jesper, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleasant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleasant	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pleasant	advmod
4	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 discover	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	9 discover	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 discover	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 discover	mark
9	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pleasant	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 lad	mark
11	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 lad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lad	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lad	det
14	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lad	amod
15	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lad	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 fisher	punct
17	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discover	advcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 kind	punct
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 kind	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 kind	cop
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 kind	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleasant	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 law	case
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 law	nsubj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 law	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 law	case
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 in	punct
29	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kind	nmod
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 expected	nsubj:pass
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 expected	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 expected	aux
34	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 law	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 said	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 said	nsubj
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pleasant	conj
39	so	so	ADV	_	38 said	advmod
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 queen	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 queen	det
42	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 said	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	whistle			pleasant property	tree rules
2	discover	to-infinitive	whistle not said here			however property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Jesper	a mere fisher lad			tree rules
4	not is a	past	that	the kind		of law	tree rules
5	expect	past · perfect · passive		law			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	Jesper		the queen		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient

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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