The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 207

Then his father sat him down and said, ‘Go in peace, my boy, but listen first to me.

Who acts: father · What happens: sit down, say, go, listen · To what, where: earth, peace, 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sat	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 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Go	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Go	punct
11	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 peace	case
13	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Go	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boy	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 boy	nmod:poss
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 peace	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 listen	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 listen	cc
19	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 Go	conj
20	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 listen	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 listen	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	father's father	earth			then		tree rules
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	go	infinitive				peace and my boy			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location
4	listen	infinitive			me			first property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme

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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