The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 125

‘Thank you, thank you!’ cried Halfman, kissing her on the forehead.

What happens: thank, cry, kiss · To what, where: you, ogress, forehead

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: 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thank	punct
5	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	parataxis
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 thank	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Thank	conj
10	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cried	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kissing	punct
12	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cried	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kissing	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 forehead	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forehead	det
16	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kissing	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	thank speech: thank	present		you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kiss	gerund	ogress		the forehead	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent

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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