The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 76

It was all so new to him that he could not sleep a wink, especially as he was always wondering what kind of tasks would be set him to do, and whether he would be able to perform them.

Who acts: kind, Jesper · What happens: be, not sleep, wonder, do, perform · To what, where: Jesper, wink, tasks · 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 (kind, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 new	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 new	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 new	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 new	advmod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 new	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 sleep	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sleep	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sleep	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 sleep	advmod
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 new	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wink	det
14	wink	wink	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wondering	punct
16	especially	especially	ADV	_	21 wondering	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 wondering	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 wondering	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 wondering	aux
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 wondering	advmod
21	wondering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sleep	advcl
22	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 tasks	case
25	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 kind	nmod
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 set	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 set	cop
28	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 wondering	ccomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 set	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 set	xcomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 able	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 able	cc
34	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	38 able	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 able	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 able	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	cop
38	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 new	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 perform	mark
40	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	xcomp
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 perform	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 new	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	kind		Jesper	all, new property	tree rules
2	not sleep	could	Jesper	a wink			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=Theme
3	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	Jesper			always, especially property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	is	would	what kind of tasks			set property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive	what kind of tasks not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	would	Jesper			able property	tree rules
7	perform	to-infinitive	Jesper not said here	tasks = task			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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