The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 105
‘That,’ thought the gazelle, ‘is the house for my master, and I will call up my courage and go and look at the people who are in it, if any people there are.
Who acts: ‘, I, people · What happens: think, be, call up, go, look · To what, where: That, house, courage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (‘, I, people), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thought | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 That | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 That | punct |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gazelle | det |
| 7 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 house | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gazelle | appos |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 call | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 call | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 call | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 call | aux |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 call | compound:prt |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 courage | nmod:poss |
| 23 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 call | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 call | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 look | cc |
| 27 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 go | conj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 people | det |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 look | obl |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 it | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 it | cop |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 people | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 are | punct |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 are | mark |
| 37 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 people | det |
| 38 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 are | nsubj |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 40 are | expl |
| 40 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | That | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent gazelle=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | ‘ | the house | for my master | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call up speech: assert | future | I | my courage | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | I not said here | at the people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at people=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | present | the people | house | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | does a condition, not said to happen | present | any people | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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