The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 105

‘Very good,’ said the ogre, and he went round to every relation he had, and told them to collect wood and bring it to the tower where Halfman was.

Who acts: ogre · What happens: say, go round, have, tell, collect, bring · To what, where: ogre, relation, relations, wood, tower · 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 (ogre), 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	_	3 good	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ogre	det
8	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
13	round	round	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 relation	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 relation	det
16	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 relation	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 collect	mark
24	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	xcomp
25	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 collect	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bring	cc
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 collect	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bring	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 tower	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tower	det
31	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bring	obl
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 was	advmod
33	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 was	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tower	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the ogre				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ogre=Topic
2	go round	past	ogre			every relation	round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to relation=Initial_Location
3	have	past	ogre	every relation not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	past			relations = relation			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	collect not said to happen	to-infinitive		wood				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
6	bring	infinitive		wood		the tower		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tower=Destination

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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