The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 61
On the way it said to him, ‘Do you understand what your brothers, whom you saved from death, have done to you?’
Who acts: way, you · What happens: say, understand, save, do · To what, where: fish, way, brothers, death, you · 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 (way, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 understand | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 understand | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 understand | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 understand | nsubj |
| 12 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 done | obj |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 done | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saved | punct |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 saved | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 saved | nsubj |
| 19 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saved | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brothers | punct |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 done | aux |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 understand | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 done | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | way | fish | the way | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | understand | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | save | past | you | your brothers | death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent whom=Theme from death=Source | |||
| 4 | do | present · perfect · passive | your brothers | you | tree rules |
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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