The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 162

At the end of the year Halfman’s wife had a son, and not long after she came one day hastily into the room, and found her husband weeping.

Who acts: wife · What happens: have, come, find, weep · To what, where: son, end, husband weeping

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 (wife), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
7	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wife	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Halfman	case
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 son	det
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 came	advmod
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 came	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	parataxis
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 day	nummod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl:unmarked
22	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	25 room	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 room	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 room	det
25	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 day	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 found	cc
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 weeping	nmod:poss
30	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 weeping	compound
31	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Halfman's wife	a son	at the end of the year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	come	past	wife		day	long property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	wife not said here	wife's husband weeping			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weeping=Topic
4	weep		wife				nom weeping «act intransitive»: poss=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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