The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 156
Who did well, and who did evil--I or my brothers?’
What happens: do · To what, where: evil
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: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 did | cc |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 did | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 8 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 I | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 evil | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 brothers | cc |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 I | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | past | evil | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality |
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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