The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 99
‘Oh, there is no door,’ replied Halfman.
Who acts: door · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: 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 (door), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no door | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Halfman | tree rules |
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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