The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 44
‘Why have you been so long in coming?’ asked he, when they had found him.
Who acts: you, long, uncle · What happens: be, come, ask, find · To what, where: Halfman
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 (you, long, 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 | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 long | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 long | nsubj |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 long | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 coming | mark |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 long | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 found | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | aux |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | you | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | long | Halfman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | find | past · perfect | uncle | Halfman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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