The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 194
The year passed away, then Halfman saddled his horse, and rode to the place where the ogress had found him sleeping.
Who acts: year, Halfman, ogress · What happens: pass away, saddle, ride, find, sleep · To what, where: horse, place, ogress
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 (year, Halfman, ogress), 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 | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saddled | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 saddled | advmod |
| 7 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 saddled | nsubj |
| 8 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saddled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rode | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rode | cc |
| 13 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rode | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 found | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ogress | det |
| 19 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | aux |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | obj |
| 23 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 found | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | the year | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | saddle | past | Halfman | Halfman's horse | then | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination | |||
| 3 | ride | past | the year not said here | the place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | find | past · perfect · passive | the ogress | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sleep | gerund | the ogress not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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