The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 139

‘Give it to me, mother!’ said the gazelle, and she unhooked the sword from the wall, as she was bidden.

Who acts: mother · What happens: give, say, unhook, bid · To what, where: sword, me, gazelle, mother · 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 (mother), 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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Give	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mother	punct
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obl
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
10	said	say	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 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unhooked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 unhooked	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 unhooked	nsubj
16	unhooked	unhook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sword	det
18	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 unhooked	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 unhooked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bidden	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 bidden	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bidden	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bidden	aux:pass
26	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 unhooked	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	infinitive		sword	me	mother obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past		the gazelle			tree rules
3	unhook	past	mother	the sword		from the wall	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sword=Patient from wall=Co-Patient
4	bid	past · passive		mother			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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