The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 112
And the gazelle said, ‘It is I, great mistress, your grandchild.’
Who acts: gazelle, Open · What happens: say, be · To what, where: great mistress · 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 (gazelle, Open), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gazelle | det |
| 3 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 mistress | punct |
| 7 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mistress | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mistress | cop |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 mistress | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mistress | punct |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mistress | amod |
| 12 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grandchild | punct |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grandchild | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mistress | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 mistress | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 mistress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the gazelle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Open | great mistress and your grandchild | tree rules |
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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