The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 88

‘You had better bring the wood in here,’ continued Halfman, ‘and I will split it up small, so that there may be no delay in cooking me.’

Who acts: You, I, delay · What happens: have, bring, continue, split up, be · To what, where: wood, 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 (You, I, delay), 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	_	3 had	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 continued	ccomp
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 bring	advmod
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 here	case
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 bring	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
12	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 continued	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ‘	punct
15	‘	‘	INTJ	_	12 continued	discourse
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 split	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 split	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 split	aux
19	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 continued	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 split	obj
21	up	up	ADP	_	19 split	compound:prt
22	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 split	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 be	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	28 be	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 be	expl
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 be	aux
28	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 split	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 delay	det
30	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 be	nsubj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 cooking	case
32	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 delay	nmod
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 cooking	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 continued	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	You				tree rules
2	bring	infinitive	You not said here	the wood		well property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Theme
3	continue	past		Halfman			tree rules
4	split up	future	I	wood		small property	tree rules
5	be	may	no delay in cooking me		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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