The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 175

‘Go to your father,’ she said, ‘and repeat this speech to him: “I want my forfeit; when am I to have it?”’

Who acts: you, ogress, my · What happens: go, say, ‘, repeat, want, have · To what, where: speech, Halfman, forfeit · 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 (you, ogress, my), 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	_	2 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 father	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Go	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ‘	punct
11	‘	‘	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 repeat	cc
13	repeat	repeat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 ‘	conj
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 speech	det
15	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 repeat	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 repeat	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 want	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Go	advcl
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 forfeit	nmod:poss
23	forfeit	forfeit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 want	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 have	mark
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 have	mark
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Go	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	obj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			to your father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
2	say speech: ask	past	ogress				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	‘	infinitive					tree rules
4	repeat	infinitive		this speech	Halfman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent speech=Topic to he=Recipient
5	want in a quote	present	ogress	my forfeit			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot forfeit=Theme
6	have in a quote	present	ogress	forfeit			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	forfeit in a quote		my				nom forfeit «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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