The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 12
The eleven sons came into the world, strong and handsome boys; but when the twelfth was born, there was only half of him.
Who acts: eleven sons, half · What happens: come, bear, be · To what, where: world, twelfth
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 (eleven sons, half), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sons | det |
| 2 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sons | nummod |
| 3 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boys | punct |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boys | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 handsome | cc |
| 11 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 strong | conj |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 world | appos |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 born | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 born | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 twelfth | det |
| 17 | twelfth | twelfth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 born | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | aux:pass |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 was | punct |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 was | expl |
| 22 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | conj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 half | advmod |
| 24 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 22 was | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 half | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the eleven sons | the world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | the twelfth | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | be | past | half of judge | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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