The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 146

‘Oh, master!’ answered she, ‘I am alone, as I always am!

Who acts: master, I · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: smell · 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 (master, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 master	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 master	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 master	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 master	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 alone	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 alone	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 alone	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 alone	cop
13	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 answered	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 am	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 am	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 am	nsubj
17	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	18 am	advmod
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 answered	parataxis
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	master		smell				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
2	is	present	I					alone 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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