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The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 123

‘If I am to know it, I shall know it,’ replied the gazelle; ‘but tell me, who is the lord of this house?’

Who acts: I · What happens: know, reply, tell, be · To what, where: grandson, gazelle, me, lord · 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 (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

punctmarknsubjadvclmarkxcompobjpunctnsubjauxccompobjpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctccparataxisiobjpunctnsubjcopdetoblcasedetnmodpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTIfSCONJIPRONamAUXtoPARTknowVERBitPRON,PUNCTIPRONshallAUXknowVERBitPRON,PUNCT’PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETgazelleNOUN;PUNCT‘PUNCTbutCCONJtellVERBmePRON,PUNCTwhoPRONisAUXtheDETlordNOUNofADPthisDEThouseNOUN?PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_11 knowpunct
2IfifSCONJ_4 ammark
3IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 amnsubj
4ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 knowadvcl
5totoPART_6 knowmark
6knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf4 amxcomp
7ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 knowobj
8,,PUNCT_4 ampunct
9IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs11 knownsubj
10shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin11 knowaux
11knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf15 repliedccomp
12ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 knowobj
13,,PUNCT_11 knowpunct
14’'PUNCT_15 repliedpunct
15repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 gazelledet
17gazellegazelleNOUNNumber=Sing15 repliedobj
18;;PUNCT_21 tellpunct
19‘'PUNCT_21 tellpunct
20butbutCCONJ_21 tellcc
21telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf15 repliedparataxis
22meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 telliobj
23,,PUNCT_27 lordpunct
24whowhoPRONPronType=Rel27 lordnsubj
25isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 lordcop
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 lorddet
27lordlordNOUNNumber=Sing21 tellobl
28ofofADP_30 housecase
29thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem30 housedet
30househouseNOUNNumber=Sing27 lordnmod
31??PUNCT_21 tellpunct
32’'PUNCT_21 tellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowto-infinitiveI not said heregrandsonvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2knowshallIgrandsonvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3reply speech: assertpastthe gazelletree rules
4tell speech: assertinfinitivemevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5is apresentthe lordof this housetree 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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