The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 84

Then he sat down and tried what he could do at it, but it was soon very clear that single-handed he could never hope to accomplish it in the time.

Who acts: Jesper, it · What happens: sit down, try, do, be, hand, not hope · To what, where: despair

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, it), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tried	cc
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	ccomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 clear	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 clear	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 clear	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 clear	cop
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 clear	advmod
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 clear	advmod
19	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sat	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 hope	mark
21	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 handed	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 single	punct
23	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hope	advcl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hope	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hope	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 hope	advmod
27	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 clear	csubj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 accomplish	mark
29	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hope	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 accomplish	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 time	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 time	det
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 accomplish	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Jesper			then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	try	past	Jesper not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do	could	Jesper		despair			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	is	past	it				clear, soon property	tree rules
5	hand	participle	Jesper not said here					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not hope	could	Jesper					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	accomplish not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jesper not said here	despair		time		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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