The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 9

The judge thanked him joyfully as he took the apples, and went to seek his wife.

Who acts: judge · What happens: thank, take, go, seek · To what, where: man, apples, wife

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 (judge), 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 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thanked	obj
5	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	3 thanked	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 took	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 took	nsubj
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 apples	det
10	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 took	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 took	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 seek	mark
15	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 went	xcomp
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wife	nmod:poss
17	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seek	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the judge		man	joyfully property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	take	past	judge	the apples			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme
3	go	past	judge not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	seek	to-infinitive	judge not said here	judge's wife			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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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