The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 131
The ogress was as good as her word, and in a few minutes they arrived at the outskirts of the town where Halfman and his brothers lived.
Who acts: ogress, boys, Halfman · What happens: be, arrive, live, word · To what, where: outskirts
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 (ogress, boys, Halfman), 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 | 2 ogress | det |
| 2 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 word | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 word | nmod:poss |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arrived | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 minutes | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 minutes | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 minutes | amod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arrived | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 arrived | nsubj |
| 16 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 outskirts | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 outskirts | det |
| 19 | outskirts | outskirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arrived | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 town | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 town | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 outskirts | nmod |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 lived | advmod |
| 24 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 brothers | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Halfman | conj |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 town | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ogress | as ogress's word; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | boys = boy | the outskirts of the town | minute | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | live | past | Halfman and Halfman's brothers | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | word | ogress | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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