The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 113
‘If you are my grandchild,’ returned the voice, ‘go back whence you came.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, return, go back, come · To what, where: grandchild, voice
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 (you), 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 | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 grandchild | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 grandchild | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grandchild | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 grandchild | nmod:poss |
| 6 | grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grandchild | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 grandchild | punct |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 returned | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 came | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | you | my grandchild | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the voice | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go back | infinitive | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | come | past | you | whence property | 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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