The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 192

At last Halfman rose up and said to his wife, ‘Be comforted; we will wait a year, and then I will go to the ogress and see the boy, and how he is cared for.’

Who acts: we, I · What happens: rise up, say, comfort, wait, go, see · To what, where: last Halfman, wife, ogress, boy, Halfman · 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 (we, 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 Halfman	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Halfman	amod
3	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 rose	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wife	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 comforted	punct
13	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 comforted	aux:pass
14	comforted	comfort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wait	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 wait	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 wait	aux
18	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rose	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 year	det
20	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wait	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 go	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 go	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wait	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 ogress	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ogress	det
29	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 see	cc
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wait	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 boy	det
33	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 see	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cared	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 cared	cc
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	39 cared	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 cared	nsubj:pass
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 cared	aux:pass
39	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rose	conj
40	for	for	ADP	_	39 cared	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	rise up	past				last Halfman		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at halfman=Location
2	say speech: assert	past			Halfman's wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
3	comfort	infinitive · passive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	wait	future	we				year	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	future	I			the ogress	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ogress=Initial_Location
6	see	infinitive	we not said here	the boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
7	care	present · passive		Halfman				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.

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