The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 75
That day Jesper dined with the king and queen and their nobles, and at night was put into a bedroom grander than anything of the kind he had ever seen.
Who acts: Jesper · What happens: dine, put, see · To what, where: bedroom, kind
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), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dined | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dined | nsubj |
| 4 | dined | dine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dined | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 queen | cc |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nobles | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 king | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux:pass |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dined | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 bedroom | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bedroom | det |
| 21 | bedroom | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 22 | grander | grand | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 put | xcomp |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 anything | case |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 grander | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 kind | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 kind | det |
| 27 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 anything | nmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 seen | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 seen | aux |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 seen | advmod |
| 31 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 kind | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dine | past | Jesper | day | with the king and queen and tasks's nobles | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | put | past · passive | Jesper not said here | a bedroom | night | grand property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Jesper | the kind not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kind=Stimulus |
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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