The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 170
‘And will she take him from us now?’ said the poor woman.
Who acts: wife, poor woman · What happens: take, say · To what, where: brother · 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 (wife, poor woman), 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 take | cc |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obl |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 take | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | wife | brother | now | from us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from we=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the poor woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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