The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 127

‘Very well, I will rid you of him,’ said the ogress, ‘but only on one condition.

Who acts: I · What happens: rid, say · To what, where: you, ogress · 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 (I), 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	_	7 rid	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 rid	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 rid	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 rid	aux
7	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 rid	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 you	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rid	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 rid	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ogress	det
15	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 condition	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 condition	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 condition	cc
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 condition	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 condition	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 condition	nummod
22	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ogress	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rid	future	I	you				well property	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source
2	say speech: assert	past		the ogress					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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