The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 160

Then the judge embraced Halfman and said to him: ‘You have done well, my son.

Who acts: judge, You · What happens: embrace, say, do · To what, where: Halfman · 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 (judge, You), 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	4 embraced	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 judge	det
3	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 embraced	nsubj
4	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 embraced	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 embraced	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
12	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 done	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 son	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	vocative
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 embraced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	embrace	past	the judge	Halfman		then		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halfman=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the judge not said here		Halfman			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	do	present · perfect	You				my son vocative; well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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