The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 204
And his father clasped him in his arms, and began to cry.
Who acts: father · What happens: clasp, begin, cry · To what, where: earth, arms
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 clasped | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clasped | nsubj |
| 4 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clasped | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 arms | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clasped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clasped | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cry | mark |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | father's father | earth | father's arms | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | father's father not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | father's father not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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