The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 77

In spite of the softness of the bed, he was very glad when morning came at last.

Who acts: Jesper, morning · What happens: be, come, spite · To what, where: spite, last, softness

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, morning), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 spite	case
2	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glad	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 softness	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 softness	det
5	softness	softness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spite	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 softness	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spite	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 glad	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 glad	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 glad	advmod
13	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 glad	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 came	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jesper		spite of the softness of the bed	glad property	tree rules
2	come	past	morning		last		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	spite			the softness of the bed			nom spite «feeling 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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