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title: And Halfman whispered to his brothers, ‘Get up and run for your live… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Halfman whispered to his brothers, ‘Get up and run for your lives, as the ogress is killing her daughters.’ Who acts: Halfman, ogress. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 35

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And Halfman whispered to his brothers, ‘Get up and run for your lives, as the ogress is killing her daughters.’

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**Who acts:** Halfman, ogress · **What happens:** whisper, get up, run, kill · **To what, where:** brothers, daughters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Halfman, ogress), 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:pg641:41:35
# text = And Halfman whispered to his brothers, ‘Get up and run for your lives, as the ogress is killing her daughters.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | Halfman |  | Halfman's brothers |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for your lives | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **kill** | present · progressive | the ogress | ogress's daughters |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |

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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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