The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 45
She will half kill me for not having come back with the other children.’
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: half, kill, not have, come back · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 half | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 half | aux |
| 3 | half | half | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 half | obj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 having | mark |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 having | advmod |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 kill | advcl |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 having | xcomp |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 children | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 children | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 children | amod |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 half | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 half | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | half | future | stepmother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come back | infinitive | with the other children | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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