The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 10

‘Eat these apples at once,’ he cried, ‘and you will have twelve sons.’

Who acts: you, judge · What happens: eat, cry, have · To what, where: apples, twelve sons

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 (you, judge), 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	_	2 Eat	punct
2	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 apples	det
4	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Eat	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 Eat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
8	’	'	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Eat	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
12	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Eat	conj
17	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 sons	nummod
18	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Eat	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	this apples	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	judge		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	future	you	twelve sons	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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