The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 11

So she sat down and ate eleven of them, but just as she was in the middle of the twelfth her sister came in, and she gave her the half that was left.

Who acts: wife, middle · What happens: sit down, eat, be, come in, give, leave · To what, where: eleven, middle, half

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, middle), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ate	cc
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
7	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ate	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 eleven	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 came	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 came	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	18 middle	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 middle	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 middle	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 middle	cop
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 middle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 middle	det
18	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 came	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 sister	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sister	det
21	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sister	amod
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sister	nmod:poss
23	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 middle	nmod
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
25	in	in	ADV	_	24 came	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gave	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gave	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	nsubj
29	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gave	iobj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 half	det
32	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	29 gave	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 left	nsubj:pass
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 left	aux:pass
35	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 half	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	wife					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	wife not said here	eleven of apples				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eleven=Patient
3	is	past	wife			the middle	of wife's twelfth sister	tree rules
4	come in	past	the middle					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	wife	the half	middle			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient half=Theme
6	leave	past · passive		the half				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

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