The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 14

‘I have a brother,’ he answered, ‘who lives away in the East, and he has twelve daughters; go and marry them.’

Who acts: I, twelfth · What happens: have, answer, live away, go, marry · To what, where: brother, East, twelve daughters, daughters · 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, twelfth), 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 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	ccomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brother	det
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	nsubj
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lives	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 lives	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lives	nsubj
13	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	ccomp
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 lives	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 East	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 East	det
17	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lives	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 has	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
22	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 daughters	nummod
23	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 has	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
25	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 has	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 marry	cc
27	marry	marry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 go	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 marry	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a brother			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past	twelfth				tree rules
3	live away	present			the East	away property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=Location
4	have	present	twelfth	twelve daughters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
5	go	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	marry	infinitive		daughters = daughter			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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