The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 46
‘We fell in with an ogress who took us home and would have killed us if it had not been for Halfman.
Who acts: We, ogress, half · What happens: fall in, take, kill, not be · To what, where: us
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 (We, ogress, half), 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 | _ | 3 fell | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 ogress | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ogress | det |
| 7 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ogress | acl:relcl |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 took | iobj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 killed | cc |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 killed | aux |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 took | conj |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 killed | obj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 Halfman | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 Halfman | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Halfman | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 Halfman | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 Halfman | cop |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 Halfman | case |
| 23 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in | past | We | with a ogress | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a ogress | us | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination | |||
| 3 | kill | would · perfect | a ogress not said here | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | half | for Halfman | tree rules |
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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