The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 20
This man is no uncle of ours, but an ogre.’
Who acts: man · What happens: be · To what, where: uncle
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 (man), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uncle | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 uncle | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 uncle | det |
| 5 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ours | case |
| 7 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 uncle | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ogre | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 ogre | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ogre | det |
| 11 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 uncle | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 uncle | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 uncle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this man | no uncle but a ogre | of ours | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/20/