The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 140
‘You must be quick,’ she said, ‘for he may be here at any moment.
Who acts: You, mother, music · What happens: be, say · 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, mother, music), 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 quick | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 quick | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 quick | cop |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 here | case |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 here | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 here | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 here | cop |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 moment | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 moment | det |
| 19 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 here | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | You | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | may | music | moment | here property | 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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