The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 203

The ogress was silent, but stuck her staff hard in the earth, and the earth opened, and the boy appeared and said, ‘Dear father, have you come too?’

Who acts: ogress, earth, boy, Dear father · What happens: be, stick, open, appear, say, come · To what, where: staff, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

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, earth, boy, Dear father), 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 ogress	det
2	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 silent	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 silent	cop
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stuck	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 stuck	cc
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 silent	parataxis
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 staff	nmod:poss
9	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obj
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 stuck	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 earth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 opened	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	nsubj
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 silent	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 appeared	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 appeared	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 appeared	nsubj
23	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 opened	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 appeared	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 father	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 father	punct
28	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 father	amod
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 father	punct
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
34	too	too	ADV	_	33 come	advmod
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 silent	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 silent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the ogress			silent property	tree rules
2	stick	past		ogress's staff	the earth	hard property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent staff=Theme in earth=Destination
3	open	past	the earth				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	appear	past	the boy				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	the boy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	come	present	Dear father				vn escape-51.1-1 «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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