The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 139

He went at once to his father’s room, and found him sitting in tears on the floor.

Who acts: Halfman · What happens: go, find, sit · To what, where: room, Halfman, tears

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 went	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 room	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 father	case
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	obj
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 found	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 tears	case
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sitting	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 floor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 floor	det
19	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sitting	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Halfman		Halfman's father's room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
2	find	past	Halfman not said here	Halfman			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme
3	sit	gerund	Halfman not said here		tears	on the floor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tear=Location

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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