The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 93

By-and-by the ogre and his wife returned and found their daughter lying without her head, and they began to cry and sob, saying, ‘This is Halfman’s work, why did we listen to him?’

Who acts: daughter, heads, This, we · What happens: return, find, lie, begin, cry, sob · To what, where: daughter, work, Halfman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (daughter, heads, This, we), 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	By	by	ADP	_	7 ogre	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 ogre	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ogre	cc
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 and	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 ogre	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ogre	det
7	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 returned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wife	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ogre	conj
11	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 returned	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
16	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 daughter	acl
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 head	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lying	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 began	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 began	nsubj
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 returned	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cry	mark
25	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sob	cc
27	sob	sob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 cry	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saying	punct
29	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 began	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 work	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	36 work	punct
32	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 work	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 work	cop
34	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 work	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 Halfman	case
36	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saying	ccomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 listen	punct
38	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	41 listen	advmod
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 listen	aux
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 listen	nsubj
41	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 work	parataxis
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 listen	obl
44	?	?	PUNCT	_	36 work	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	return	past				by the ogre and Halfman's wife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past		heads's daughter			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Topic
3	lie	gerund	heads's daughter not said here			without wife's head	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	heads = head				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	heads = head not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sob	infinitive	heads = head not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	is a	present	This	Halfman's work			tree rules
9	listen	past · do-support	we		Halfman		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=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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