The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 124
And she said: ‘Ah, father! in this house is much wealth, and much people, and much food, and many horses.
Who acts: news, father · What happens: say, be · To what, where: much wealth · 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 (news, father), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 6 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 father | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Ah | punct |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wealth | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wealth | cop |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wealth | amod |
| 15 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 people | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 people | cc |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wealth | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 food | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 food | cc |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 food | amod |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wealth | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 horses | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 horses | cc |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 horses | amod |
| 27 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wealth | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | news | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | father in this house | much wealth and much people and much food and many horses | 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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