The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 89
So the ogress gave Halfman a pile of wood and an axe, and then set out with her husband, leaving Halfman and her daughter busy in the house.
Who acts: ogress · What happens: give, set out, leave · To what, where: pile, 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ogress | det |
| 3 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pile | det |
| 7 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pile | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 axe | cc |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 axe | det |
| 12 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wood | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 set | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 set | advmod |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gave | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 husband | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leaving | punct |
| 22 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 set | advcl |
| 23 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 leaving | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 daughter | cc |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Halfman | conj |
| 27 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 leaving | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 busy | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the ogress | a pile of wood and a axe | Halfman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent halfman=Recipient pile=Theme | |||
| 2 | set out | infinitive | the ogress not said here | then | with ogress's husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the ogress not said here | Halfman and ogress's daughter | busy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent halfman=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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