The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 45

‘Oh, dear uncle, we were very nearly not coming at all!’ replied they.

Who acts: dear uncle, uncle · What happens: not come, reply · To what, where: all · 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 (dear uncle, 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	_	12 coming	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 uncle	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 uncle	amod
5	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coming	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 uncle	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 coming	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 coming	aux
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 nearly	advmod
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	12 coming	advmod
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 coming	advmod
12	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 replied	ccomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 coming	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 coming	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 coming	punct
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 replied	nsubj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	past · progressive	dear uncle			all		nearly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location
2	reply speech: assert	past	uncle						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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