The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 94
Jesper thought so too when the next day’s task was set before him.
Who acts: Jesper, next day · What happens: think, set, task · To what, where: task
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, next day), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 set | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 set | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 set | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 task | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 day | case |
| 10 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 set | aux:pass |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Jesper | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set | past · passive | the next day's task | before Jesper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | task | the next day | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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