The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 48

Now give us each a daughter to wife, and let us return whence we came.’

Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: give, let, return, come · To what, where: daughter, us

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, us, we), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 give	advmod
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 daughter	det
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 daughter	det
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wife	mark
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 give	conj
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 return	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	each daughter	us	now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient daughter=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	us				tree rules
3	return	infinitive	us not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	we				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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