The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 35
And Halfman whispered to his brothers, ‘Get up and run for your lives, as the ogress is killing her daughters.’
Who acts: Halfman, ogress · What happens: whisper, get up, run, kill · To what, where: brothers, daughters · 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 (Halfman, ogress), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 whispered | cc |
| 2 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 whispered | nsubj |
| 3 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 brothers | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whispered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Get | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Get | punct |
| 9 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 whispered | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 Get | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 run | cc |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Get | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 lives | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lives | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 run | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 killing | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 killing | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ogress | det |
| 19 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 killing | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 killing | aux |
| 21 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 run | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 23 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 killing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Get | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | Halfman | Halfman's brothers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get up | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | run | infinitive | for your lives | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | kill | present · progressive | the ogress | ogress's daughters | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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