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title: He was very proud and dignified, but in order to get the hare he act… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was very proud and dignified, but in order to get the hare he actually stood on his head, whacked his heels together, and cried “Hurrah”; and that old fellow was the----’ Who acts: Jesper, old fellow. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its depe
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 158

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He was very proud and dignified, but in order to get the hare he actually stood on his head, whacked his heels together, and cried “Hurrah”; and that old fellow was the----’

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**Who acts:** Jesper, old fellow · **What happens:** be, get, stand, whack, cry · **To what, where:** hare, head, heels, Hurrah

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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, old fellow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:24:158
# text = He was very proud and dignified, but in order to get the hare he actually stood on his head, whacked his heels together, and cried “Hurrah”; and that old fellow was the----’
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dignified	dignified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	fixed	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
22	whacked	whack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Hurrah	Hurrah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
35	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	----	----	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jesper |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Jesper *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | the hare |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hare=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stand** | past | Jesper | the hare *not said here* |  | Jesper's head |  | actually *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hare=Theme on head=Destination |
| 5 | **whack** | past |  | Jesper's heels |  |  |  | together *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Patient |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Hurrah |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurrah=Topic |
| 7 | **be** | past | that old fellow |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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