The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 27
Next he drew their scarlet caps from their heads and exchanged them for the veils which the ogre’s daughters were wearing.
Who acts: Halfman, daughters · What happens: draw, exchange, wear · To what, where: scarlet caps, heads, caps, veils
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, daughters), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 caps | nmod:poss |
| 5 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caps | compound |
| 6 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 heads | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 exchanged | cc |
| 11 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exchanged | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 veils | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 veils | det |
| 15 | veils | veil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exchanged | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 wearing | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ogre | det |
| 18 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 ogre | case |
| 20 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wearing | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wearing | aux |
| 22 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 veils | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Halfman | girls's scarlet caps | girls's heads | next property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cap=Theme from head=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | exchange | past | Halfman not said here | caps = cap | for the veils | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme for veil=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | wear | past · progressive | the ogre's daughters | the veils | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |
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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