The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 122
‘Oh, how can I stop it?’ asked he.
Who acts: I · What happens: stop, ask · To what, where: rope, Halfman
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stop | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 stop | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 stop | advmod |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 stop | nsubj |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | parataxis |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stop | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 stop | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stop | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | can | I | rope | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Halfman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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