The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 126

‘Oh!’ cried the gazelle when he heard this; ‘tell me how I can get at the snake to kill him?’

Who acts: lord, I · What happens: cry, hear, tell, get, kill · To what, where: gazelle, this, 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 (lord, 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gazelle	det
7	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cried	advcl
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 heard	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 get	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	ccomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 snake	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snake	det
22	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 kill	mark
24	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 get	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kill	obj
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		the gazelle			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gazelle=Topic
2	hear	past	lord	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	get	can	I			at the snake	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	kill	to-infinitive	I not said here	lord			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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