The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 171
‘No, not quite yet,’ replied Halfman; ‘when he is bigger.’
Who acts: Halfman · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: Halfman
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 (Halfman), 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 yet | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 yet | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 yet | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 yet | advmod |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 replied | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 yet | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 yet | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 bigger | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 bigger | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 bigger | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bigger | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bigger | cop |
| 16 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 replied | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Halfman | yet | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent halfman=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Halfman | big property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/171/