The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 73

I am going to roast him, so be quick and make up the fire!’

Who acts: I · What happens: go, roast, be, make up · To what, where: Halfman, fire

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 (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 roast	mark
5	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 roast	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quick	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 quick	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 quick	cop
10	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 going	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 make	cc
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 quick	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 make	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fire	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	roast	to-infinitive	I not said here	Halfman		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	is	infinitive			quick property	tree rules
4	make up	infinitive		the fire		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Pivot

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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