The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 90

‘Yes,’ they said; they had had a boy who was called Halvor, but they did not know where he had gone, and they could not even say whether he were dead or alive.

Who acts: vessels, Halvor · What happens: say, have, call, not know, go, not say · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vessels, Halvor), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 had	aux
10	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 called	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 called	aux:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 boy	acl:relcl
16	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 know	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 gone	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gone	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gone	aux
26	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 know	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 say	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 say	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 say	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 say	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 say	advmod
32	even	even	ADV	_	33 say	advmod
33	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
34	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	37 dead	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dead	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 dead	cop
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 say	ccomp
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 alive	cc
39	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dead	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	vessels = vessel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past · perfect	vessels = vessel	a boy		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
3	call	past · passive		a boy		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	not know	past · do-support	vessels = vessel			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go	past · perfect	Halvor			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not say speech: assert	could	vessels = vessel			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	Halvor		dead property	tree rules
8	be		Halvor not said here			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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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