The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 119

Then Halfman heaved a great sigh and said, ‘That was hard work; the rope has hurt my hands badly, but now I am rid of her for ever.’

Who acts: Halfman, That, I · What happens: heave, say, be, hurt · To what, where: great sigh, hard work, rope · 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 (Halfman, That, I), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 heaved	advmod
2	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heaved	nsubj
3	heaved	heave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sigh	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sigh	amod
6	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heaved	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heaved	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct
11	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 work	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 work	cop
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 work	amod
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 hurt	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rope	det
17	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hurt	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hurt	aux
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heaved	conj
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hands	nmod:poss
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hurt	obj
22	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 hurt	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rid	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 rid	cc
25	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 rid	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 rid	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 rid	cop
28	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heaved	parataxis
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 rid	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 ever	case
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 rid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 rid	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 heaved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	heave	past	Halfman	a great sigh	then		vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Halfman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	That	hard work			tree rules
4	hurt	present · perfect · passive		the rope		badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer hand=Result
5	is	present	I		now	of ogress; rid 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 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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