The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 214

And Halfman mounted his horse and rode home, and told his wife all he had seen, and the message sent by Mohammed--Mohammed the son of Halfman, the son of the judge.

Who acts: Halfman, Mohammed · What happens: mount, ride, tell, see, send · To what, where: horse, wife, son · 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 (Halfman, Mohammed), 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	_	3 mounted	cc
2	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mounted	nsubj
3	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mounted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rode	cc
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	conj
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 rode	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 told	ccomp
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 all	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 message	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 message	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 message	det
21	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mounted	parataxis
22	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 message	acl
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 Mohammed	case
24	Mohammed	Mohammed	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sent	obl
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	26 Mohammed	punct
26	Mohammed	Mohammed	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Mohammed	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 son	det
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sent	nsubj:pass
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Halfman	case
30	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 son	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 son	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 son	det
33	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 message	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 judge	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 judge	det
36	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 son	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mount	past	Halfman	Halfman's horse			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
2	ride	past	Halfman not said here			home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	Halfman not said here		Halfman's wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient
4	see	past · perfect	Halfman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	send	participle · passive	Mohammed and Mohammed	the son of Halfman			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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