The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 12
It is the custom for a trader in merchandise to be summoned hither and thither, and who knows where one may find a buyer?’
Who acts: answer, custom, one · What happens: be, summon, know, find · To what, where: custom, buyer · 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 (answer, custom, one), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 custom | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 custom | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 custom | det |
| 4 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 trader | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trader | det |
| 7 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 custom | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 merchandise | case |
| 9 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trader | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 summoned | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 summoned | aux:pass |
| 12 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 merchandise | acl:relcl |
| 13 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 12 summoned | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thither | cc |
| 15 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 13 hither | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 knows | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 knows | cc |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 knows | nsubj |
| 19 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 custom | parataxis |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 find | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 find | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | aux |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 knows | ccomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 buyer | det |
| 25 | buyer | buyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 custom | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | answer | the custom | for a trader in merchandise | tree rules | |||
| 2 | summon | to-infinitive · passive | answer not said here | hither property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | know | present | the custom | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | find | may | one | a buyer | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buyer=Topic |
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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