The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 202

Then he seized her hand and said, ‘Oh, let me see my son, and how he looks, and what he is doing.’

Who acts: Halfman, me · What happens: seize, say, let, see, look, do · To what, where: hand, me, son · 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 (Halfman, me), 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	3 seized	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seized	nsubj
3	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seized	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	12 let	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Oh	punct
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looks	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looks	cc
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 looks	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looks	nsubj
21	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seized	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 doing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 doing	cc
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 doing	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 doing	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 doing	aux
27	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 looks	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 doing	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 looks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	seize	past	Halfman	wife's hand	then	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Halfman not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		me		tree rules
4	see	infinitive	me not said here	my son		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
5	look	present	Halfman			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	do	present · progressive	Halfman			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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