The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 201
‘Yes, that is it,’ replied Halfman.
Who acts: that, first · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: first, Halfman
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 (that, first), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 it | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 it | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 it | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 it | cop |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 it | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 it | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | first | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | first | Halfman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent halfman=Topic |
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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