The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 78

Halvor was standing outside his father and mother’s cottage before he knew what he was about.

Who acts: Halvor · What happens: stand, know, be

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor), 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	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 standing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 standing	aux
3	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 standing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cottage	cc
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cottage	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 mother	case
10	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 knew	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 standing	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 knew	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 about	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 about	cop
17	about	about	ADV	_	14 what	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	Halvor	outside Halvor's father and mother's cottage	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside father=Location
2	know	past	Halvor		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	is	past	Halvor	about 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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