The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 51
Let us put him to death and give his wife to our eldest brother!’
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, put, give · To what, where: us, brother, wife, eldest brother
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), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 give | cc |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 brother | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 brother | amod |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | us not said here | brother | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |||
| 3 | give | infinitive | us not said here | brother's wife | our eldest brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to brother=Recipient |
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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