The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 84
At the end of three months he said to his gaolers: ‘Now I have got quite fat; take me out, and kill me.’
Who acts: ogre, I · What happens: say, get, take out, kill · To what, where: end, fat, me · 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, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 months | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 months | nummod |
| 6 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 gaolers | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 gaolers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gaolers | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 14 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 got | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 got | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | aux |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 fat | advmod |
| 19 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 take | compound:prt |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 kill | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 kill | cc |
| 26 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 take | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 kill | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | ogre | at the end of three months | to ogre's gaolers | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to gaoler=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | get | present · perfect | I | fat | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | take out | infinitive | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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