The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 166
‘Because,’ replied Halfman, ‘the baby is not really ours, but belongs to an ogress.’
Who acts: baby · What happens: reply, not be, belong · To what, where: Halfman, ours
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 (baby), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 replied | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Because | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ours | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 ours | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 baby | det |
| 10 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ours | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ours | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 ours | advmod |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 ours | advmod |
| 14 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Halfman | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 belongs | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 belongs | cc |
| 17 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ogress | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ogress | det |
| 20 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 belongs | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Halfman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent halfman=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not is a | present | the baby | ours | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | belong | present | to a ogress | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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