The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 149
All this time the gazelle had been standing close to the door, holding the sword in one of its front paws.
Who acts: gazelle · What happens: stand, hold · To what, where: sword
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 (gazelle), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gazelle | det |
| 5 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 standing | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 standing | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 standing | aux |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 standing | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 close | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 holding | punct |
| 14 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 standing | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sword | det |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holding | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 holding | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 paws | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 paws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 paws | amod |
| 22 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · perfect · progressive | the gazelle | time | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the gazelle not said here | the sword | in one of scent's front paws | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in one=Location |
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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