The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 136

As he drew near he heard sounds of weeping and lamentations, and he said to a man he met: ‘What is the matter?’

Who acts: Halfman · What happens: draw, hear, say, meet, be · To what, where: sounds, man, matter · 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 (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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 drew	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 heard	case
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
7	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 weeping	case
9	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounds	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lamentations	cc
11	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 weeping	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 met	nsubj
20	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 man	acl:relcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 ‘	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 matter	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 matter	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 matter	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 matter	det
26	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	26 matter	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 matter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	draw	past	Halfman			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	Halfman	sounds of weeping and lamentations		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	Halfman		a man	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient
4	meet	past	Halfman	a man not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
5	is a	present		the matter		tree rules

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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