The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 99

Here he found something which turned out to be the whistle given to him by the old woman.

Who acts: Jesper · What happens: find, turn out, be, give · To what, where: something, whistle, Jesper

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), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 found	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 found	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 something	acl:relcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 turned	compound:prt
8	to	to	PART	_	11 whistle	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 whistle	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 whistle	det
11	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	xcomp
12	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 whistle	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 given	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 woman	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 given	obl:agent
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	find	past	Jesper	something		here	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
2	turn out	past					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		the whistle			tree rules
4	give	participle		the whistle not said here	Jesper		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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