The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 195
She was not there, but not knowing what to do next, he got off his horse and waited.
Who acts: ogress, Halfman · What happens: not be, not know, do, get off, wait · To what, where: horse
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 (ogress, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 there | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 there | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 knowing | advmod |
| 8 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 got | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knowing | xcomp |
| 12 | next | next | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knowing | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | parataxis |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 got | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 horse | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 waited | cc |
| 20 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | ogress | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | Halfman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | Halfman not said here | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | get off | past | Halfman | Halfman's horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | wait | past | Halfman not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/195/