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title: The country was strange to Halfman, and he wandered about without kn… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The country was strange to Halfman, and he wandered about without knowing where he was going, till he suddenly found the ogress standing before him. Who acts: country, Halfman, ogress. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 66

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The country was strange to Halfman, and he wandered about without knowing where he was going, till he suddenly found the ogress standing before him.

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**Who acts:** country, Halfman, ogress · **What happens:** be, wander, know, go, find, stand · **To what, where:** Halfman, ogress

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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 (country, Halfman, ogress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:41:66
# text = The country was strange to Halfman, and he wandered about without knowing where he was going, till he suddenly found the ogress standing before him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the country |  | Halfman |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wander** | past | Halfman |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | gerund | Halfman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | Halfman |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past | Halfman | the ogress |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogress=Topic |
| 6 | **stand** | gerund | the ogress *not said here* |  |  |  | before Halfman |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |

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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.

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**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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