The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 118

So Halfman slowly drew her up, and when she was near the top he let go the rope, and she fell down and broke her neck.

Who acts: Halfman, ogress, top · What happens: draw up, be, let, go, fall down, break · To what, where: ogress, top, rope, neck

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 (Halfman, ogress, top), 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	_	4 drew	advmod
2	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 drew	advmod
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drew	iobj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 drew	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 top	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 top	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 top	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 top	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 top	cop
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 top	acl:relcl
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rope	det
19	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fell	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fell	nsubj
23	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 fell	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 broke	cc
26	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fell	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 neck	nmod:poss
28	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 broke	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw up	past	Halfman		ogress		slowly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	is	past	ogress			the top		tree rules
3	let	past	Halfman	the top not said here				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	the top not said here	the rope				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rope=Theme
5	fall down	past	ogress				down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	break	past	ogress not said here	ogress's neck				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

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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