The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 81

‘Butter, meat, and red wine,’ answered Halfman.

Who acts: Butter · What happens: answer · To what, where: Halfman

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 (Butter), 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 Butter	punct
2	Butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meat	punct
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Butter	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wine	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wine	cc
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wine	amod
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Butter	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Butter	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Butter	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Butter and meat and red wine		Halfman				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent halfman=Eventuality

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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