The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 182

‘A woman gave it to me yesterday, and she told me, father, to tell you that she wanted her forfeit, and when was she to have it?’

Who acts: woman · What happens: give, tell, want, have, forfeit · To what, where: ring, me, father, you, 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 (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	_	4 gave	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 gave	obl
8	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 father	punct
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tell	mark
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 wanted	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 wanted	nsubj
22	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	ccomp
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 forfeit	nmod:poss
24	forfeit	forfeit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wanted	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 have	cc
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 have	mark
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 have	mark
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give	past	a woman	ring	me	yesterday	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	woman		father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient father=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	woman not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	want	past	woman	woman's forfeit			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot forfeit=Theme
5	have	past	woman	ring			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	forfeit		woman				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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