The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 169

‘I promised,’ said Halfman, ‘when she undertook to kill my brother and to give you to me, that the first son we had should be hers.’

Who acts: I, Halfman, wife, first son · What happens: promise, say, undertake, kill, give, have · To what, where: brother, you, 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 (I, Halfman, wife, first son), 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 promised	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 undertook	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 undertook	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 undertook	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 undertook	nsubj
12	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 kill	mark
14	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 undertook	xcomp
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brother	nmod:poss
16	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kill	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 give	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 kill	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 give	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 son	det
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 son	amod
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	nsubj
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 undertook	conj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 hers	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 hers	cop
32	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 had	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Halfman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	undertake	past	wife				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	kill	to-infinitive	wife not said here	my brother			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
5	give	to-infinitive	wife not said here		you	to me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to i=Recipient
6	have	past	the first son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is a	should		wife			tree rules

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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