--- title: When they had done drinking, Halfman, who was standing in the middle… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When they had done drinking, Halfman, who was standing in the middle of the stream, called out: ‘Throw me the rope and draw me up, for I cannot get out alone.’ Who acts: daughters, Halfman, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman, with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of Halfman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/) / 56 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 56 When they had done drinking, Halfman, who was standing in the middle of the stream, called out: ‘Throw me the rope and draw me up, for I cannot get out alone.’ **Who acts:** daughters, Halfman, I · **What happens:** do, stand, call out, throw, draw up, not get out · **To what, where:** drinking, middle, Halfman, rope, me 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 (daughters, Halfman, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:41:56 # text = When they had done drinking, Halfman, who was standing in the middle of the stream, called out: ‘Throw me the rope and draw me up, for I cannot get out alone.’ 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Halfman Halfman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Throw throw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 draw draw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 37 out out ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 alone alone ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past · perfect | daughters *= daughter* | drinking | | | | Halfman *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drinking=Eventuality | | 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | Halfman | | | the middle of the stream | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | | 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | | Halfman *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **throw** | infinitive | | the rope | me | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination rope=Theme | | 5 | **draw up** | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 6 | **not** **get out** | can | I | | | | | alone, out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/57/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Halfman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/)