The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 147

So the father called them all into his presence.

Who acts: father · What happens: call · To what, where: brides, presence · 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 (father), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 father	det
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 presence	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 presence	nmod:poss
9	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the father	brides = bride		father's presence			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic into presence=Recipient

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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