The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 83
The king walked off, and Jesper looked in despair at the task before him.
Who acts: king, Jesper · What happens: walk off, look
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 (king, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 walked | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looked | cc |
| 7 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 despair | case |
| 10 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 task | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 task | det |
| 13 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk off | past | the king | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look | past | Jesper | before king | at the task; in despair | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in despair=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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