The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 11

But the man with the cage made answer: ‘Since I started from my home in the country, fifty people at the least have called me to show them my gazelles, and was there one among them who cared to buy?

Who acts: man, I, fifty people · What happens: make, start, call, show, be, care · To what, where: answer, home, me, people · 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 (man, I, fifty 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 made	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 cage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cage	det
6	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 started	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 started	punct
11	Since	since	SCONJ	_	13 started	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 started	nsubj
13	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	conj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 home	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 home	nmod:poss
16	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 started	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 country	det
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 started	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 people	punct
21	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 people	nummod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 called	nsubj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 least	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 least	det
25	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 people	appos
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 called	aux
27	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 started	parataxis
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 called	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 show	mark
30	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 called	xcomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 show	obj
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 gazelles	nmod:poss
33	gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 show	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 there	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 there	cc
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 there	cop
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 made	advmod
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 there	obl
39	among	among	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 one	nmod
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 cared	nsubj
42	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 one	acl:relcl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 buy	mark
44	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 cared	xcomp
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	participle	the man with the cage	answer			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product
2	start	past	I		my home	in the country	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	call	present · perfect	fifty people	me			tree rules
4	show	to-infinitive	fifty people not said here	people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gazelle=Topic
5	is	past				one among Gazelles obl; there property	tree rules
6	care	past					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	buy	to-infinitive					vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: 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.

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