The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 146

‘Well, call my brothers,’ answered Halfman, ‘as I have a story to tell them.’

Who acts: I · What happens: call, answer, have, tell · To what, where: brothers, Halfman, story, brides · 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	_	4 call	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 call	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 answered	ccomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brothers	nmod:poss
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 call	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 have	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 story	det
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 story	acl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	infinitive			my brothers	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient
2	answer speech: assert	past			Halfman	tree rules
3	have	present	I	a story		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	a story not said here	brides = bride	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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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