The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 76
‘What is the hurry, my good ogre?’ asked Halfman.
Who acts: hurry · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: hurry, Halfman
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 (hurry), 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 | _ | 5 hurry | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 hurry | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurry | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hurry | det |
| 5 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ogre | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ogre | nmod:poss |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ogre | amod |
| 9 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurry | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 ogre | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 ogre | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the hurry | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the hurry | Halfman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent halfman=Recipient |
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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