The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 181

The next morning, as he was at breakfast, his mother said to him, ‘Child, where did you get that ring?’

Who acts: judge, mother, you · What happens: be, say, get · To what, where: judge, ring · 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, mother, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 breakfast	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 breakfast	case
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 breakfast	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 breakfast	cop
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 breakfast	case
9	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morning	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Child	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Child	punct
18	Child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 get	advmod
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Child	appos
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 ring	det
25	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 Child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	judge				as breakfast	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	judge's mother		judge	morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	get	past · do-support	you	that ring				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus

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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