The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 90

After he had chopped for a little while he called to the girl, ‘Come and help me, or else I shan’t have it all ready when your mother gets back.’

Who acts: Halfman, you, I, mother · What happens: chop, call, come, help, not have, get back · To what, where: girl, me, pile · 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 (Halfman, you, I, mother), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 chopped	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chopped	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chopped	aux
4	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 Come	advcl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 little	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chopped	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 called	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	nsubj
10	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chopped	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 girl	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 girl	det
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Come	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Come	punct
16	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 help	cc
18	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Come	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 help	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
22	else	else	ADV	_	26 have	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
24	sha	sha	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 have	advmod
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Come	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	obj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 it	det
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 have	xcomp
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 gets	advmod
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mother	nmod:poss
32	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gets	nsubj
33	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 have	advcl
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 gets	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 Come	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	chop	past · perfect	Halfman			for a little	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	call	past	Halfman		the girl		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient
3	come	imperative	you not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	infinitive	you not said here		me		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
5	not have		I	pile		else, ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	get back	present	your mother				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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