The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 54
‘Halfman is the youngest,’ said the elder brother, ‘he must go.’
Who acts: Halfman, youngest, brother · What happens: be, say, go · 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, youngest, brother), 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 | _ | 5 youngest | punct |
| 2 | Halfman | Halfman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 youngest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 youngest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youngest | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 youngest | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 youngest | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brother | det |
| 10 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brother | amod |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Halfman | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youngest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | must | brother | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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