The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 109

‘Oh,’ she shrieked with rage, ‘you have killed my daughters and my husband, and all the men belonging to me; how can I get at you to avenge myself?’

Who acts: wife, men, you · What happens: shriek, kill, belong, get, avenge · To what, where: you, me, myself

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 (wife, men, you), 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 shrieked	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 shrieked	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shrieked	punct
4	’	'	CCONJ	_	6 shrieked	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shrieked	nsubj
6	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 rage	case
8	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shrieked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 killed	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 killed	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 killed	nsubj:pass
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 killed	aux
13	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shrieked	parataxis
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughters	nmod:poss
15	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 killed	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 husband	cc
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 husband	nmod:poss
18	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 daughters	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 men	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 get	nsubj
24	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 men	acl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 belonging	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
28	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 get	advmod
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shrieked	advcl
32	at	at	SCONJ	_	35 avenge	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 avenge	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 avenge	mark
35	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 get	xcomp
36	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 avenge	obj
37	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 shrieked	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 shrieked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	shriek	past	wife			with rage	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme
2	kill	present · perfect · passive		you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer daughter=Result
3	belong	gerund	all men not said here		me		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	get	can	all men				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	avenge	to-infinitive	you	myself			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 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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