The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 16

‘Good greeting to you, young men!’ said she, ‘we have waited long for you, your uncle and I. The girls have become women, and are sought, in marriage by many, but I knew you would come one day, and I have kept them for you.

Who acts: Good greeting, woman, uncle, I, you · What happens: say, wait, become, seek, know, come · To what, where: women, marriage, girls · 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 (Good greeting, woman, uncle, I), 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	_	3 greeting	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 greeting	amod
3	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 greeting	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 men	punct
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 men	amod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 greeting	conj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 greeting	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 greeting	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 waited	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waited	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 waited	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 waited	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 waited	aux
17	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	ccomp
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 waited	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 waited	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 uncle	punct
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 uncle	nmod:poss
23	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 become	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 I.	cc
25	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 uncle	conj
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 girls	det
27	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 become	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 become	aux
29	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 waited	conj
30	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 become	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sought	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sought	cc
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 sought	aux:pass
34	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 marriage	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 marriage	case
37	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sought	obl
38	by	by	ADP	_	39 many	case
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sought	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 knew	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 knew	cc
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 knew	nsubj
43	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sought	conj
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 come	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 come	aux
46	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 knew	ccomp
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 day	nummod
48	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 come	obl:unmarked
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 kept	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 kept	cc
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 kept	nsubj
52	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 kept	aux
53	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 said	conj
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 kept	obj
55	for	for	ADP	_	56 you	case
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	53 kept	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Good greeting to you and young men					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wait	present · perfect	woman				for you; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	become	present · perfect	your uncle and I.	women				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	seek	present · passive			marriage		by many	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: in marriage=Location
5	know	past	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	come	would	you			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	keep	present · perfect	I	girls = girl			for you	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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