The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 150
But I warned my brothers that the man was not our uncle, but an ogre.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: warn, not be · To what, where: brothers, uncle · 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 (I, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 warned | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 warned | nsubj |
| 3 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 warned | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 uncle | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 uncle | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 uncle | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 uncle | advmod |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 12 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warned | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ogre | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 ogre | cc |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ogre | det |
| 16 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 uncle | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | past | I | my brothers | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | the man | our uncle but a ogre | tree rules |
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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