The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 95

The king’s gamekeepers had caught a hundred live hares, which were to be let loose in a large meadow, and there Jesper must herd them all day, and bring them safely home in the evening: if even one were missing, he must give up all thought of marrying the princess.

Who acts: hundred, Jesper, one, thought · What happens: catch, live, let, herd, bring, be · To what, where: gamekeepers, hares, thought, princess

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 (hundred, Jesper, one, thought), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gamekeepers	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	gamekeepers	gamekeeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 caught	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	aux
6	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hundred	det
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 live	nsubj
9	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	ccomp
10	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 let	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 let	aux:pass
14	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	aux:pass
16	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hares	acl:relcl
17	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 let	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 meadow	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 meadow	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meadow	amod
21	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loose	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 herd	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 herd	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 herd	expl
25	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 herd	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 herd	aux
27	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 caught	parataxis
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 herd	obj
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 herd	obl:unmarked
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bring	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bring	cc
33	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 herd	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bring	obj
35	safely	safely	ADV	_	33 bring	advmod
36	home	home	ADV	_	33 bring	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 evening	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 evening	det
39	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bring	obl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 missing	punct
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 missing	mark
42	even	even	ADV	_	43 one	advmod
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 missing	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 missing	cop
45	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 caught	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 give	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 give	nsubj
48	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 give	aux
49	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 missing	parataxis
50	up	up	ADP	_	49 give	compound:prt
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 thought	det
52	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 give	obj
53	of	of	SCONJ	_	54 marrying	mark
54	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 thought	acl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 princess	det
56	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 marrying	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		the king's gamekeepers				tree rules
2	live	present	a hundred	hares				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hare=Location
3	let	past · passive	a hundred not said here	hares			loose property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	herd	must	Jesper	hares = hare	there	day		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	bring	infinitive	Jesper not said here	hares = hare		evening	home, safely property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	is a condition, not said to happen	past	one				missing property	tree rules
7	give up	must	Jesper	all thought				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Source
8	marry	gerund	all thought not said here	the princess				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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