The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 97
‘Now,’ said the king, ‘as he walked away, ‘let’s see what your cleverness can do here.’
Who acts: king, ’s, cleverness · What happens: say, walk away, let, see, do · To what, where: king, ’s · 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 (king, ’s, cleverness), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 walked | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 walked | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 walked | nsubj |
| 12 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 walked | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 walked | advcl |
| 17 | ’s | we | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 do | obj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cleverness | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cleverness | cleverness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 do | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 do | aux |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | ccomp |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 do | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | walk away | past | king | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | king not said here | ’s | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | ’s not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | can | your cleverness | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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