The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 79

He led him out to the barn, and there in the middle of the floor was a large pile of grain.

Who acts: Jesper · What happens: lead out, be · To what, where: king, barn, large pile, middle

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	nsubj
2	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 led	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	2 led	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 barn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 barn	det
7	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 there	cc
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 led	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 middle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 middle	det
13	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pile	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 floor	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 floor	det
16	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 middle	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 pile	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pile	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pile	amod
20	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 led	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 grain	case
22	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pile	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead out	past	Jesper	king		the barn; there			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to barn=Destination
2	is a	past		a large pile		the middle of the floor		of grain	tree rules

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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