The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 14
‘What do you ask for your gazelles?’ said the beggar.
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, say · To what, where: beggar · 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 (you), 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 ask | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 ask | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 gazelles | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gazelles | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gazelles | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ask | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beggar | det |
| 13 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · do-support | you | for your gazelles | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the beggar | 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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