The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 56

When they had done drinking, Halfman, who was standing in the middle of the stream, called out: ‘Throw me the rope and draw me up, for I cannot get out alone.’

Who acts: daughters, Halfman, I · What happens: do, stand, call out, throw, draw up, not get out · To what, where: drinking, middle, Halfman, rope, me

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 (daughters, Halfman, I), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Halfman	punct
7	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 done	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 standing	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 standing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 standing	aux
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 Halfman	acl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 stream	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stream	det
17	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 middle	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Halfman	acl:relcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 called	compound:prt
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Throw	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Throw	punct
23	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 done	parataxis
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Throw	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rope	det
26	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Throw	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 draw	cc
28	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 Throw	conj
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 draw	obj
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 draw	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 get	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 get	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 get	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 get	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 get	advmod
36	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Throw	parataxis
37	out	out	ADV	_	36 get	advmod
38	alone	alone	ADV	_	36 get	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	daughters = daughter	drinking			Halfman obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drinking=Eventuality
2	stand	past · progressive	Halfman			the middle of the stream		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
3	call out speech: assert	participle		Halfman not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	throw	infinitive		the rope	me			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination rope=Theme
5	draw up	infinitive		me				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	not get out	can	I				alone, out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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