The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 73

‘Never mind,’ said she, ‘you can easily set him such tasks as he will never be able to perform: we shall soon get rid of him.’

Who acts: you, law, Jesper, we · What happens: not mind, say, set, not be, perform, get · To what, where: Jesper · 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 (you, law, Jesper, we), 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	_	3 mind	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 mind	advmod
3	mind	mind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mind	ccomp
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
9	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	13 set	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 set	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 set	aux
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	13 set	advmod
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mind	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	obj
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tasks	amod
16	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 set	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 able	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 able	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 able	aux
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 able	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	cop
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 set	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 perform	mark
24	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 get	punct
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 get	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 get	aux
28	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 get	advmod
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mind	advcl
30	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 get	xcomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 rid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not mind	imperative	you not said here			vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	law			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	set	can	you	Jesper	easily property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Theme task=Destination
4	not is	future	Jesper		able property	tree rules
5	perform	to-infinitive	Jesper not said here			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	shall	we		rid, soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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