The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 37
By this time the ogress had slain all her daughters but one, who awoke suddenly and saw what had happened.
Who acts: one · What happens: slay, awake, see, happen · To what, where: ogress · 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 (one), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slain | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ogress | det |
| 5 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slain | aux |
| 7 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 daughters | det:predet |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 slain | obj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 awoke | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 awoke | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 awoke | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 awoke | nsubj |
| 15 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slain | conj |
| 16 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 awoke | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 awoke | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 happened | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happened | aux |
| 21 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past · perfect · passive | the ogress | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | one | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | one not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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