The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 88
‘Is that all?’ said the ant; ‘we shall soon put that to rights.’
Who acts: we · What happens: be, put · To what, where: that · 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 (we), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ant | det |
| 9 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 put | aux |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 put | advmod |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 put | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 rights | case |
| 18 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | present | say property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put | shall | we | that | to rights; soon property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent that=Goal |
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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