The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 72

‘Look here!’ she called to her husband, ‘I have got hold of Halfman.

Who acts: ogress, I · What happens: look, call, get, hold · To what, where: husband, hold, Halfman · 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 (ogress, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 called	ccomp
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Look	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 called	nsubj
7	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 husband	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 got	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 got	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 got	aux
15	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 called	conj
16	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 got	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Halfman	case
18	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hold	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	look	infinitive				here	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	call speech: assert	past	ogress		ogress's husband		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic
3	get	present · perfect	I	hold of Halfman			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
4	hold			Halfman			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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