The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 137
‘The judge’s eldest son was married yesterday, and died suddenly before night.’
What happens: marry, die · To what, where: eldest son
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 | _ | 8 married | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 judge | det |
| 3 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 judge | case |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 married | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 married | aux:pass |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 married | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 died | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 died | cc |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 married | conj |
| 13 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 died | advmod |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | past · passive | the judge's eldest son | yesterday | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | die | past | night | suddenly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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