The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 183

Then his father burst into tears and said, ‘If she comes again you must say to her that your parents bid her take her forfeit at once, and depart.’

Who acts: father, woman, you, parents · What happens: burst, say, come, bid, take, depart · To what, where: tears, woman, 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 (father, woman, you, parents), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 burst	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burst	nsubj
4	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 tears	case
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burst	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
11	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 comes	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 comes	nsubj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	advcl
14	again	again	ADV	_	13 comes	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 bid	mark
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 parents	nmod:poss
22	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bid	nsubj
23	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 say	advcl
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bid	obj
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bid	xcomp
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 forfeit	nmod:poss
27	forfeit	forfeit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	25 take	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 depart	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 depart	cc
32	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 burst	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	burst	past	father's father			tears	then	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	father's father not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come a condition, not said to happen	present	woman				again	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	must	you		woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
5	bid	past	your parents	woman				tree rules
6	take	infinitive	your parents not said here	woman's forfeit				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent forfeit=Theme at once=Asset
7	depart	present	father's father not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	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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