The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 110

‘Oh, that is easy enough,’ said Halfman.

Who acts: that, Halfman · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that, Halfman), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 easy	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 easy	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 easy	cop
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 easy	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 easy	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					easy, enough property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Halfman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/110/