The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 78

After breakfast was over, the king said to Jesper, ‘Just come with me, and I’ll show you what you must do first.’

Who acts: breakfast, king, I, you · What happens: be, say, come, show, do · To what, where: Jesper, you · 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 (breakfast, king, I, you), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 breakfast	case
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 over	cop
4	over	over	ADV	_	2 breakfast	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 breakfast	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Jesper	case
10	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
13	Just	just	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 show	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 show	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 show	nsubj
20	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 show	aux
21	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 show	iobj
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 do	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 show	ccomp
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 do	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	breakfast not said here			over property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the king	Jesper	after breakfast		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to jesper=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	come	infinitive				with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	show	future	I	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
5	do	must	you			first property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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