The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 208

Tell your father the ogre and your mother the ogress, that never more shall they have any children of mine.’

Who acts: you, mother · What happens: tell, have · To what, where: ogre, father, that · 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 (you, mother), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ogre	det
5	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	nsubj:outer
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ogress	det
10	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	nsubj:outer
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 have	obj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 have	advmod
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 mine	case
21	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 children	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the ogre	your father				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient ogre=Topic
2	have	shall	your mother	that					tree rules

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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