The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 143
‘No, no, he was better than you!’ moaned the father.
Who acts: Halfman, better · What happens: be, moan · To what, where: father
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, better), 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 better | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 better | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 better | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 better | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 better | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 better | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 better | cop |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 moaned | nsubj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 better | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 better | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 better | punct |
| 13 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 moaned | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 moaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Halfman | than you; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | moan | past | better | the father | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent father=Theme |
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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