The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 65

‘Thank you,’ said Halfman, and went his way, while the fish swam back to its home.

Who acts: Halfman, fish · What happens: thank, say, go, swim back · To what, where: you, way, home · 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), 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	_	2 Thank	punct
2	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Thank	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Thank	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swam	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 swam	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fish	det
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swam	nsubj
17	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 swam	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 home	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 home	nmod:poss
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swam	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present			you		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Halfman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	past		Halfman's way			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
4	swim back	past	the fish			danger's home	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to home=Destination

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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