The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 21
‘Nonsense; of course he is our uncle,’ answered they.
Who acts: man, uncle · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: Nonsense, meat
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, uncle), 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 | _ | 2 Nonsense | punct |
| 2 | Nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obl |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 uncle | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 uncle | case |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 of | fixed |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 uncle | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 uncle | cop |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 uncle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 uncle | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 uncle | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | man | of our uncle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | our uncle | Nonsense | meat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
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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