The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 90

Jesper watched them for a while, but through the continual movement of the little creatures, and his not having slept during the previous night, he soon fell sound asleep.

Who acts: Jesper · What happens: watch, sleep, fall, sound, move · To what, where: Ants, little creatures

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	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watched	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 while	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 movement	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 movement	cc
9	through	through	ADP	_	12 movement	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 movement	det
11	continual	continual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 movement	amod
12	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watched	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 creatures	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 creatures	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 creatures	amod
16	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 movement	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 slept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 slept	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 slept	nmod:poss
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 having	advmod
21	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 slept	aux
22	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 watched	conj
23	during	during	ADP	_	26 night	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 night	det
25	previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 night	amod
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 slept	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fell	nsubj
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 fell	advmod
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 watched	conj
31	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 fell	xcomp
32	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sound	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	Jesper	Ants = ant	while		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	sleep	gerund · perfect	Jesper not said here		night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	past	Jesper			soon property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	sound	infinitive	Jesper not said here			asleep property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	move			the little creatures			nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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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