The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 112
‘All right,’ returned the ogress, fastening the rope which Halfman let down.
Who acts: All, Halfman · What happens: return, fasten, let down · To what, where: ogress, rope
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 (All, 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 returned | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 All | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 All | punct |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ogress | det |
| 8 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fastening | punct |
| 10 | fastening | fasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 returned | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rope | det |
| 12 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fastening | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 let | obj |
| 14 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 let | nsubj |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rope | acl:relcl |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 let | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | All | the ogress | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogress=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fasten | gerund | All not said here | the rope | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let down | past | Halfman | the rope | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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