The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 141
You weep for my brother, but I am your son too, and he stole my bride from me and tried to drown me in the brook.
Who acts: You, I, Halfman · What happens: weep, be, steal, try, drown · To what, where: son, bride, me, brook
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 (You, I, Halfman), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 weep | nsubj |
| 2 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 brother | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weep | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 son | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 son | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 son | cop |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weep | conj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 son | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stole | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stole | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stole | nsubj |
| 16 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 weep | parataxis |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bride | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stole | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 stole | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tried | cc |
| 22 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stole | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 drown | mark |
| 24 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 tried | xcomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 drown | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 brook | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 brook | det |
| 28 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drown | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 weep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | present | You | for my brother | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | your son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | steal | past | Halfman | my bride | from me | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bride=Theme from i=Source | |||
| 4 | try | past | Halfman not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | drown not said to happen | to-infinitive | Halfman not said here | me | the brook | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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