The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 134
Then she returned to Halfman and told him to go and claim his bride.
Who acts: ogress · What happens: return, tell, go, claim · To what, where: Halfman, bride · 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 (ogress), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Halfman | case |
| 5 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 claim | cc |
| 12 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bride | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 claim | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | ogress | Halfman | then | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to halfman=Result | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | ogress not said here | Halfman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | ogress not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | claim speech: other | infinitive | ogress not said here | Halfman's bride | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bride=Topic |
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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