The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 120
‘Great lady, where I come from it is well, and with you it is well.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: come, be · To what, where: grandson
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 (I, 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 | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 come | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lady | acl:relcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 come | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 well | cop |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 come | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 well | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 well | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 well | nsubj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 well | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 well | cop |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 come | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | I | grandson | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | well property | 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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