The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 86

‘But,’ went on Halfman, ‘you and your wife had better go to invite your friends to the feast, and your daughter can stay in the house and look after me!’

Who acts: daughter, you · What happens: go, have, invite, stay, look · To what, where: Halfman, friends, house

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 (daughter, you), 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	_	5 went	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 But	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stay	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Halfman	case
7	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
9	‘	‘	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wife	cc
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 you	conj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
15	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 had	advmod
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 invite	mark
18	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	xcomp
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 friends	nmod:poss
20	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 invite	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 feast	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 feast	det
23	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 invite	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stay	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stay	cc
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stay	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 stay	aux
29	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 house	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 house	det
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stay	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 look	cc
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 stay	conj
35	after	after	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 look	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 stay	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 stay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	your daughter not said here		Halfman			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on halfman=Location
2	have	past	you				well property	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	you not said here					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	invite	to-infinitive	you not said here	your friends			to the feast	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient
5	stay	can	your daughter		the house			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
6	look	infinitive	your daughter not said here			after me		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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