The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 148

Then Halfman began: ‘After we were twelve days’ journey from home, we met an ogress, who gave us greeting and said, “Why have you been so long coming?

Who acts: Halfman, we, ogress · What happens: begin, be, meet, give, say, come · To what, where: home, ogress, greeting, us · 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 (Halfman, we, ogress), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 began	advmod
2	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 journey	punct
6	After	after	ADP	_	12 journey	case
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 journey	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 journey	cop
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 journey	nmod:poss
11	’	's	PART	_	10 days	case
12	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 home	case
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 journey	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 met	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 met	nsubj
17	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ogress	det
19	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ogress	acl:relcl
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 gave	iobj
24	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 coming	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 coming	punct
29	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 have	advmod
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 coming	aux
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 have	nsubj
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 coming	aux
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 long	advmod
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 coming	amod
35	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 said	ccomp
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	Halfman				then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	past	we			home	after twelve days's journey; day	tree rules
3	meet	past	we	a ogress				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogress=Co-Agent
4	give	past	a ogress	greeting	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient greeting=Theme
5	say speech: ask	past	Halfman not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come in a quote	present · perfect · progressive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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