The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 138

‘Well,’ thought Halfman, ‘my conscience is clear anyway, for it is quite plain he coveted my wife, and that is why he tried to drown me.’

Who acts: conscience, Halfman, that · What happens: think, be, covet, try, drown · To what, where: Halfman, wife, me

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 (conscience, Halfman, that), 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	_	5 thought	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 thought	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thought	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clear	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 clear	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 conscience	nmod:poss
10	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clear	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 clear	cop
12	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thought	conj
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	12 clear	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 plain	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 plain	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 plain	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 plain	cop
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 plain	advmod
19	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clear	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 coveted	nsubj
21	coveted	covet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 plain	acl:relcl
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 coveted	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 why	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 why	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 why	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 why	cop
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 tried	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tried	nsubj
30	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 drown	mark
32	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 tried	xcomp
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 drown	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past		Halfman		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot halfman=Theme
2	is	present	my conscience		anyway, clear property	tree rules
3	is	present	conscience		for plain	tree rules
4	covet	past	Halfman	my wife		vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme
5	is	present	that		why property	tree rules
6	try	past	Halfman			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	drown not said to happen	to-infinitive	Halfman not said here	me		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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