The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 185

And when he went out, he said to his play-fellows, ‘Look how smart I am; I am going away with my aunt to foreign lands.’

Who acts: father, I · What happens: go out, say, look, be, go away · To what, where: play fellows, foreign lands · 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 (father, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	13 fellows	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fellows	nmod:poss
11	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fellows	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 play	punct
13	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Look	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Look	punct
16	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 smart	advmod
18	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Look	xcomp
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 smart	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 smart	cop
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	advcl
25	away	away	ADV	_	24 going	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 aunt	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 aunt	nmod:poss
28	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 going	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 lands	case
30	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lands	amod
31	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 going	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	father				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	father	father's play fellows			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fellow=Recipient
3	look	infinitive	father not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	I			smart property	tree rules
5	go away	present · progressive	I		foreign lands	with my aunt; away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location

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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