The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 68
You killed my daughters and helped your brothers to escape.
Who acts: You, brothers · What happens: kill, help, escape · To what, where: daughters, brothers
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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 4 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 killed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 helped | cc |
| 6 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 killed | conj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 helped | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 escape | mark |
| 10 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 helped | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | You | my daughters | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | past | You not said here | your brothers | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | escape | to-infinitive | your brothers not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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