The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 8
The pearls, he thought, could only be brought by a very wealthy man, and the tasks would require unusual talents to accomplish them.
Who acts: pearls, wealthy man, tasks · What happens: think, bring, require, accomplish · To what, where: unusual talents, 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 (pearls, wealthy man, tasks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pearls | det |
| 2 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pearls | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 brought | aux:pass |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 wealthy | advmod |
| 14 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 require | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 require | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tasks | det |
| 19 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 require | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 require | aux |
| 21 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 brought | conj |
| 22 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 talents | amod |
| 23 | talents | talent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 require | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 accomplish | mark |
| 25 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 require | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 accomplish | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the pearls | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | could · passive | a wealthy man | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | require | would | the tasks | unusual talents | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme talent=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | accomplish | to-infinitive | the tasks not said here | tasks = task | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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