The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 59

Halfman sank down under the water from the force of the fall, but before he touched the bottom a fish came and said to him, ‘Fear nothing, Halfman; I will help you.’

Who acts: Halfman, fish, I · What happens: sink down, touch, come, say, help · To what, where: water, bottom, Halfman, you · 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, fish, I), 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	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sank	nsubj
2	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sank	compound:prt
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 force	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 force	det
9	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sank	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 fall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fall	det
12	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 force	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 touched	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 touched	cc
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 touched	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 touched	nsubj
17	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sank	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bottom	det
19	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 touched	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fish	det
21	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 touched	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 nothing	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 nothing	punct
29	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nothing	compound
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 said	ccomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Halfman	punct
32	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 nothing	appos
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 help	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 help	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 help	aux
36	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sank	parataxis
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 help	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 help	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sink down	past	Halfman			the water	from the force of the fall	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	touch	past	Halfman	the bottom				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottom=Co-Theme
3	come	past	a fish					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	a fish not said here		Halfman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	help	future	I		you			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary

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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