The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 50

But the wife of Halfman was the prettiest of them all, and the other brothers were jealous and said to each other: ‘What, is he who is only half a man to get the best?

Who acts: wife, other brothers · What happens: be, say, get · To what, where: each, man, best · 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 (wife, other brothers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 prettiest	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prettiest	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Halfman	case
5	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wife	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 prettiest	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prettiest	det
8	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 prettiest	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 them	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 jealous	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 jealous	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 brothers	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 brothers	amod
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 jealous	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 jealous	cop
18	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 prettiest	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 jealous	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 each	case
22	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	20 said	obl
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 each	fixed
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 man	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 What	punct
26	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 man	nsubj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 What	punct
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 man	cop
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 man	nsubj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 man	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 man	cop
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 half	advmod
33	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	35 man	det:predet
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 man	det
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prettiest	appos
36	to	to	PART	_	37 get	mark
37	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 man	acl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 best	det
39	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 get	obj
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 prettiest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wife of Halfman			of daughters = daughter; pretty property	tree rules
2	is	past	the other brothers			jealous property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the other brothers not said here		each		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
4	is a	present		half man			tree rules
5	get	to-infinitive	the wife of Halfman not said here	the best			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus

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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