The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 128
He has put me here all by myself, and I have to cook his food.
Who acts: son, I · What happens: put, have, cook · To what, where: me, food
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 (son, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 myself | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 myself | case |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 cook | mark |
| 14 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 food | nmod:poss |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cook | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present · perfect | son | me | here | by myself | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme by myself=Destination | ||
| 2 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cook | to-infinitive | I not said here | son's food | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
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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