The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 140
‘Dear father,’ said Halfman, ‘are you not glad to see me?
Who acts: Dear father, you · What happens: say, not be, see · To what, where: me · 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 (Dear father, you), 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 | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 father | amod |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glad | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 glad | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 glad | cop |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 glad | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 glad | advmod |
| 13 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 glad | xcomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dear father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | you | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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