The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 135
‘Mind your own business, mother,’ answered the gazelle, ‘and don’t mind other people’s!
What happens: mind, answer, not mind · To what, where: own business, gazelle, other people · 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: 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 | _ | 2 Mind | punct |
| 2 | Mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 business | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 business | amod |
| 5 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Mind | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mother | punct |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 business | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mind | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mind | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gazelle | det |
| 12 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mind | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 18 mind | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mind | cc |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 mind | aux |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 mind | advmod |
| 18 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gazelle | conj |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mind | obj |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 people | case |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | infinitive | your own business and mother | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the gazelle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not mind | infinitive · do-support | other people | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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