The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 91
When he woke again, the king had just come into the barn, and was amazed to find that not only was the task accomplished, but that Jesper had found time to take a nap as well.
Who acts: Jesper, king, task · What happens: wake, come, be, find, not be, take · To what, where: barn, Jesper, nap · 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 (Jesper, king, task), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 woke | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 woke | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 barn | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 barn | det |
| 13 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 amazed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 amazed | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 amazed | cop |
| 17 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woke | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 amazed | csubj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 accomplished | mark |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 accomplished | advmod |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 accomplished | advmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 accomplished | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 task | det |
| 25 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 accomplished | nsubj |
| 26 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 found | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 found | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 found | mark |
| 30 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 found | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 found | aux |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 woke | conj |
| 33 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 found | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 time | acl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 nap | det |
| 37 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 38 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 35 take | advmod |
| 39 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 as | fixed |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | Jesper | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | the king | the barn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into barn=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Jesper not said here | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | not is | past | the task | accomplish property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find | past · perfect · passive | Jesper | time | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | a nap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=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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