The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 157
‘Is this story true?’ said the father, turning to his sons.
Who acts: story · What happens: be, say, turn · To what, where: father · 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 (story), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 true | cop |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 true | nsubj |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 true | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 father | det |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turning | punct |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sons | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 turning | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this story | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | to father's sons result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to son=Result |
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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