The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 13

In the hope that his presence might be a restraint upon them, the minister used to sit at the table during his servants’ meals, and would exhort them to drink much and often, thinking that they would not be able to eat as well, and beef was dearer than beer.

Who acts: hope, minister, Hans, beef · What happens: be, use, sit, exhort, drink, think · To what, where: restraint, hope, table, Hans · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope, minister, Hans, beef), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 hope	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hope	det
3	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 used	obl
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 restraint	nsubj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 presence	nmod:poss
6	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 restraint	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 restraint	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 restraint	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 restraint	det
10	restraint	restraint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hope	acl:relcl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 restraint	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hope	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 minister	det
15	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sit	mark
18	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 table	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 table	det
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sit	obl
22	during	during	ADP	_	26 meals	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 servants	nmod:poss
24	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 meals	nmod:poss
25	’	's	PART	_	24 servants	case
26	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sit	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 exhort	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 exhort	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 exhort	aux
30	exhort	exhort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 exhort	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 drink	mark
33	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 exhort	xcomp
34	much	much	ADV	_	33 drink	advmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 often	cc
36	often	often	ADV	_	34 much	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 thinking	punct
38	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 drink	advcl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	44 able	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 able	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 able	aux
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 able	advmod
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 able	cop
44	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 thinking	ccomp
45	to	to	PART	_	46 eat	mark
46	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 able	xcomp
47	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	46 eat	advmod
48	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 as	fixed
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 dearer	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 dearer	cc
51	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 dearer	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 dearer	cop
53	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 used	conj
54	than	than	ADP	_	55 beer	case
55	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 dearer	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	might	the hope	a restraint			upon Hans = han	tree rules
2	use	past	the minister		the hope			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sit	to-infinitive	the minister not said here		the table	during minister's servants's meals		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location
4	exhort	would	the minister not said here	Hans = han				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	drink	to-infinitive	the minister not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other	gerund	the minister not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not is	would	Hans = han				able property	tree rules
8	eat	to-infinitive	Hans = han not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	beef				than beer; dear property	tree rules

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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