The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 121

While it was still dark, an ogress passed by, and she woke him and said, ‘Halfman, to-morrow your brother is to marry your wife.’

Who acts: rope, ogress, brother · What happens: be, pass by, wake, say · To what, where: ogress, Halfman · 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 (rope, ogress, brother), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 dark	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dark	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ogress	punct
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ogress	det
8	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dark	conj
9	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ogress	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	9 passed	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 woke	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 woke	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 woke	nsubj
14	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 woke	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 woke	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Halfman	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 Halfman	punct
20	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 marry	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 morrow	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 to	punct
24	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 marry	obl
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brother	nmod:poss
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 marry	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 marry	cop
28	to	to	PART	_	29 marry	mark
29	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	conj
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 marry	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	rope		still	dark property	tree rules
2	pass by	participle		a ogress not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wake	past	ogress	Halfman			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	ogress not said here	Halfman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	your brother			to morrow; marry 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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