The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 83
So Halfman was locked into the room, and the ogre and his wife brought him his food.
Who acts: ogre · What happens: lock, bring · To what, where: Halfman, room, food
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 (ogre), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 locked | advmod |
| 2 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | aux:pass |
| 4 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 locked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ogre | det |
| 11 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wife | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ogre | conj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 locked | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 food | nmod:poss |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past · passive | Halfman | the room | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the ogre and Halfman's wife | Halfman's food | Halfman | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination food=Theme |
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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