The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 211

‘You are never to take away any more of my father and mother’s children!’

Who acts: You · What happens: not be

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), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 take	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 take	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADP	_	6 take	compound:prt
8	any	any	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 children	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 children	compound
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mother	cc
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
15	’s	's	PART	_	12 father	case
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	You					take property	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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