The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 129
‘Oh, anything,’ answered Halfman, ‘as long as you deliver me from my brother, and get me my wife.’
Who acts: anything, you · What happens: answer, deliver, get · To what, where: Halfman, me, wife · 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 (anything, 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 | _ | 4 anything | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 anything | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 anything | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 anything | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 deliver | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 deliver | nsubj |
| 15 | deliver | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 long | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 deliver | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 brother | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 deliver | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 get | cc |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 get | obj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | anything | Halfman | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | deliver | present | you | me | from my brother | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from brother=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | get | infinitive | my wife | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary wife=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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