The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 49

‘Take them!’ said the uncle; ‘the eldest for the eldest, the second for the second, and so on to the youngest.’

Who acts: you · What happens: take, say · To what, where: daughters, uncle · 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), 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	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Take	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Take	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 uncle	det
8	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 eldest	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 eldest	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 eldest	det
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 Take	parataxis
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 eldest	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eldest	det
15	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 eldest	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eldest	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 second	det
18	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 eldest	obl:unmarked
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 second	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 second	det
21	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 eldest	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 on	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 on	cc
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 on	advmod
25	on	on	ADV	_	2 Take	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 youngest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 youngest	det
28	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 on	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	daughters = daughter					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the uncle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent uncle=Topic

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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