The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 98

Jesper stared round him in bewilderment, and having nothing better to do with his hands, thrust them into his pockets, as he was in the habit of doing.

Who acts: Jesper, habit · What happens: stare, have, do, thrust, be · To what, where: bewilderment, nothing, sacks, pockets, habit

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, habit), 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 stared	nsubj
2	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stared	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bewilderment	case
6	bewilderment	bewilderment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stared	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 better	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 better	cc
9	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 better	csubj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 having	obj
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 stared	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thrust	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thrust	punct
18	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 better	csubj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thrust	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 pockets	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 pockets	nmod:poss
22	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thrust	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 habit	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 habit	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 habit	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 habit	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 habit	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 habit	det
29	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thrust	parataxis
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 doing	mark
31	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 habit	acl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stare	past	Jesper		bewilderment	round king	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme
2	have	gerund		nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
3	do	to-infinitive				with Jesper's hands	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	thrust	infinitive		sacks = sack	Jesper's pockets		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	is	past	Jesper		the habit		tree rules
6	do	gerund	the habit not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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