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title: ‘Oh,’ she shrieked with rage, ‘you have killed my daughters and my h… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh,’ she shrieked with rage, ‘you have killed my daughters and my husband, and all the men belonging to me; how can I get at you to avenge myself?’ Who acts: wife, men, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 109

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‘Oh,’ she shrieked with rage, ‘you have killed my daughters and my husband, and all the men belonging to me; how can I get at you to avenge myself?’

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**Who acts:** wife, men, you · **What happens:** shriek, kill, belong, get, avenge · **To what, where:** you, me, myself

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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 (wife, men, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:41:109
# text = ‘Oh,’ she shrieked with rage, ‘you have killed my daughters and my husband, and all the men belonging to me; how can I get at you to avenge myself?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
24	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
32	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
36	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shriek** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | with rage | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer daughter=Result |
| 3 | **belong** | gerund | all men *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | can | all men |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | you | myself |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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