The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 13

By-and-by they all grew into men, and one day they told their father it was high time he found wives for them.

Who acts: sons, half, twelfth · What happens: grow, tell, be, find · To what, where: father, high time, wives · 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 (sons, half, twelfth), 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 -	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grew	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 they	case
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 grew	advmod
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 men	case
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obl:unmarked
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	iobj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 time	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 time	cop
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	ccomp
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 time	acl:relcl
25	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 found	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wives	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	sons = son				into men result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into man=Result
2	tell speech: assert	past	sons = son		sons's father	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	is a	past	half	high time				tree rules
4	find	past	twelfth	wives			for sons = son	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Theme for they=Beneficiary

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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