The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 19

But at night, when every one was asleep, Halfman crept softly to his brothers, and said to them, ‘Listen, all of you!

Who acts: one, Halfman · What happens: be, creep, say, listen · To what, where: brothers, girls, all · 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 (one, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 crept	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crept	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asleep	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 asleep	mark
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asleep	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asleep	cop
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 night	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
11	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 crept	nsubj
12	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	softly	softly	ADV	_	12 crept	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 brothers	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 crept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 crept	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Listen	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Listen	punct
24	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 all	punct
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 Listen	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 all	nmod
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	every one				asleep property	tree rules
2	creep	past	Halfman		Halfman's brothers	night	softly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to brother=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past			girls = girl			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
4	listen	infinitive		all				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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