The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 101
It will take me seven days, and if I am not back in seven days he will not leave the palace till I return.’
Who acts: It, I, lord · What happens: take, not be, not leave, return · To what, where: me, palace
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I, lord), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leave | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 leave | cc |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 back | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 back | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 back | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 back | advmod |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 leave | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 days | case |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 days | nummod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 back | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 leave | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 leave | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 leave | advmod |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | obj |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 return | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 return | nsubj |
| 25 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 leave | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | It | me | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | I | day | back property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not leave | future | lord | the palace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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