The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 152
Then I woke my brothers, and we all stole softly from the house, and we rode like the wind to our real uncle.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: wake, steal, ride · To what, where: brothers, house
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, we), 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 woke | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | 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 woke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stole | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stole | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 stole | nsubj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 stole | advmod |
| 10 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 11 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 10 stole | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stole | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rode | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rode | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 rode | nsubj |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 woke | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 wind | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wind | det |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 uncle | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 uncle | amod |
| 25 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | I | my brothers | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | |||
| 2 | steal | past | we | the house | softly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | ride | past | we | like the wind; to our real uncle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to uncle=Trajectory |
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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