The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 75

Then he turned to his wife and said: ‘It is all ready, let us put him on!’

Who acts: ogre, chimney, us · What happens: turn, say, be, let, put on · To what, where: us, ogre · 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 (ogre, chimney, us), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 turned	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 ready	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 ready	punct
11	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ready	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ready	cop
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 ready	advmod
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 ready	parataxis
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	18 put	compound:prt
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 ready	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	ogre			then	to ogre's wife result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wife=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	ogre not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	chimney				all, ready property	tree rules
4	let	infinitive		us				tree rules
5	put on	infinitive	us not said here		ogre			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

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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