The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 66

The country was strange to Halfman, and he wandered about without knowing where he was going, till he suddenly found the ogress standing before him.

Who acts: country, Halfman, ogress · What happens: be, wander, know, go, find, stand · To what, where: Halfman, ogress

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 (country, Halfman, ogress), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strange	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strange	cop
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Halfman	case
6	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 strange	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wandered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wandered	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wandered	nsubj
10	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strange	conj
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 wandered	advmod
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 knowing	mark
13	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 wandered	advcl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 going	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 knowing	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 found	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	22 found	advmod
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ogress	det
24	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 found	obj
25	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 ogress	acl
26	before	before	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 standing	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 strange	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the country		Halfman		strange property	tree rules
2	wander	past	Halfman				about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	gerund	Halfman not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	past · progressive	Halfman					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	Halfman	the ogress			suddenly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogress=Topic
6	stand	gerund	the ogress not said here			before Halfman		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location

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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