The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 132
Here she left him, while she went into the town itself, and found the wedding guests just leaving the brother’s house.
Who acts: ogress · What happens: leave, go, find · To what, where: Halfman, town, wedding guests, house
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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 town | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 guests | det |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 guests | compound |
| 18 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 found | obj |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 leaving | advmod |
| 20 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 found | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 brother | det |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaving | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | ogress | Halfman | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | ogress | the town town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past | ogress not said here | the wedding guests | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Topic | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | ogress not said here | the brother's house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
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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