The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 186

At that moment the ogress came up and asked him, ‘Did you give my message to your father and mother?’

Who acts: ogress, you · What happens: come up, ask, give · To what, where: father, message · 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 (ogress, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ogress	det
5	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
13	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 give	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 give	nsubj
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 message	nmod:poss
17	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mother	cc
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 father	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	come up	past	the ogress			moment	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the ogress not said here		father		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give	past · do-support	you	my message	your father and mother		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent message=Theme to father=Recipient

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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