The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 115
‘Open, mistress, I entreat, I have something to say to you.’
Who acts: Open mistress, I · What happens: entreat, have, say · To what, where: something, you · 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 (Open mistress, I), 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 | _ | 7 entreat | punct |
| 2 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mistress | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Open | punct |
| 4 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entreat | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 entreat | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 entreat | nsubj |
| 7 | entreat | entreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 entreat | conj |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 something | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 say | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entreat | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 entreat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | infinitive | Open mistress | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | I not said here | something not said here | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
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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