The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 209

‘All right,’ replied the boy, and called ‘Mother!’

What happens: reply, call · To what, where: boy, Mother · 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: 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	_	6 replied	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 replied	advmod
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 All	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 All	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 called	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 called	cc
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 replied	conj
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Mother	punct
13	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Mother	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 Mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past		the boy					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
2	call	participle		Mother					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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