The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 213

Then the boy turned to his father and said, ‘Go in peace, dear father, and give my mother greeting and tell her not to be anxious any more, for she can keep all her children.’

Who acts: boy, Mother, my · What happens: turn, say, go, give, tell, not be · To what, where: peace, mother greeting, Mother, children · 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, Mother, my), 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 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 Go	punct
12	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 peace	case
14	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 father	punct
16	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 father	amod
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 peace	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 give	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 give	cc
20	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 Go	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 greeting	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 greeting	compound
23	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 give	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tell	cc
25	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 Go	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 anxious	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	30 anxious	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 anxious	cop
30	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tell	advcl
31	any	any	ADV	_	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 tell	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 keep	punct
34	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 keep	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 keep	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 keep	aux
37	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tell	conj
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 children	det:predet
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 children	nmod:poss
40	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 keep	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the boy				then	to earth's father result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	the boy not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	infinitive				peace and dear father			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location
4	give	infinitive		my mother greeting					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive			Mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
6	not is	to-infinitive						anxious property	tree rules
7	keep	can	Mother	Mother's children					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
8	greet		my						nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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