The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 47
He knew what was in her mind and saved us, and here we are.
Who acts: Halfman, we · What happens: know, be, save · To what, where: mind, us · 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 (Halfman, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 mind | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mind | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 saved | cc |
| 9 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 saved | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 here | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 here | cc |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 here | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 here | cop |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Halfman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | ogress's mind | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | save | past | Halfman not said here | us | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | we | here property | 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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