The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 205

But the boy struggled to be free, saying ‘Dear father, put me down.

Who acts: boy, Dear father · What happens: struggle, be, say, put down · To what, where: me · 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 (boy, Dear father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 struggled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 struggled	nsubj
4	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 free	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 free	cop
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 struggled	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 struggled	advcl
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 father	punct
11	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 father	amod
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 father	punct
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	ccomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	down	down	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 struggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	struggle	past	the boy			vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	to-infinitive	the boy not said here		free property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the boy not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	put down	infinitive	Dear father	me		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal

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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