--- title: It was all so new to him that he could not sleep a wink, especially… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was all so new to him that he could not sleep a wink, especially as he was always wondering what kind of tasks would be set him to do, and whether he would be able to perform them. Who acts: kind, Jesper. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/76/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/) / 76 # The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 76 It was all so new to him that he could not sleep a wink, especially as he was always wondering what kind of tasks would be set him to do, and whether he would be able to perform them. **Who acts:** kind, Jesper · **What happens:** be, not sleep, wonder, do, perform · **To what, where:** Jesper, wink, tasks · **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 (kind, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:24:76 # text = It was all so new to him that he could not sleep a wink, especially as he was always wondering what kind of tasks would be set him to do, and whether he would be able to perform them. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 all all ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wink wink NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 especially especially ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ _ 21 wondering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 22 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 23 det _ _ 23 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 tasks task NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 28 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 cop _ _ 38 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 perform perform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | kind | | Jesper | | | all, new *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **sleep** | could | Jesper | a wink | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wink=Theme | | 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | Jesper | | | | | always, especially *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | would | what kind of tasks | | | | | set *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | what kind of tasks *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | would | Jesper | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **perform** | to-infinitive | Jesper *not said here* | tasks *= task* | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/77/) - ↑ back to [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/)