The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 97

Soon the ogre appeared, looking right and left lest his prey should be sheltering behind a rock or tree, but he did not know Halfman was so near till he heard his voice calling, ‘Come up! come up! you will find me here!’

Who acts: ogre, prey, Halfman, you · What happens: appear, look, leave, shelter, not know, be · To what, where: rock, voice, me · 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 (ogre, prey, Halfman, you), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 appeared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ogre	det
3	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 appeared	advcl
7	right	right	ADV	_	6 looking	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	conj
10	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	15 sheltering	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 prey	nmod:poss
12	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sheltering	nsubj
13	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sheltering	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 sheltering	aux
15	sheltering	shelter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 left	advcl
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 rock	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rock	det
18	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sheltering	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 tree	cc
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rock	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 know	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 know	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 know	advmod
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 appeared	parataxis
27	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 near	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 near	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 near	advmod
30	near	near	ADV	_	26 know	ccomp
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 heard	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 heard	nsubj
33	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 find	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 voice	nmod:poss
35	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heard	obj
36	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 heard	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Come	punct
38	‘	'	PUNCT	_	39 Come	punct
39	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 calling	ccomp
40	up	up	ADV	_	39 Come	advmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 Come	punct
42	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 Come	conj
43	up	up	ADV	_	42 come	advmod
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	33 heard	punct
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 find	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 find	aux
47	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 know	parataxis
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 find	obj
49	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 find	advmod
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the ogre			soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	the ogre not said here			right property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	leave	past	the ogre not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shelter	should · progressive	ogre's prey		a rock or tree		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind rock=Location
5	not know	past · do-support	prey				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	Halfman			near property	tree rules
7	hear	past	Halfman	Halfman's voice			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
8	call speech: assert	gerund	Halfman not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	come up	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	come up	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	find	future	you	me	here		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic

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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