The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 2
One day he was standing lost in thought before his house, when an old man passed by.
What happens: lose, pass by · To what, where: he, thought, old man
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 lost | aux:pass |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 thought | case |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 man | advmod |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | appos |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 man | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 passed | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | he | thought | before his house; day | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | pass by | participle | a old man not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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.
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