The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 153

And the gazelle said to him, ‘You have climbed all sorts of trees, but this you can’t climb,’ and as the seventh head came darting through it went rolling to join the rest.

Who acts: gazelle, You, this, seventh head, six · What happens: say, climb, not climb, come, dart, go · To what, where: snake, sorts, rest, trees · 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 (gazelle, You, this, seventh head), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gazelle	det
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 climbed	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 climbed	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 climbed	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 climbed	aux
11	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 sorts	det
13	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 climbed	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 trees	case
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sorts	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 climb	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 climb	cc
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 climb	nsubj:outer
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 climb	nsubj
20	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 climb	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 climb	advmod
22	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 climb	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 climb	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 came	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 head	det
28	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 head	amod
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
31	darting	dart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 came	advcl
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 went	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 darting	ccomp
35	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 went	xcomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 join	mark
37	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 rolling	xcomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 rest	det
39	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 join	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the gazelle		snake	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	climb	present · perfect	You	all sorts of trees		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sort=Theme
3	not climb	can	this			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the seventh head			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dart	gerund	the seventh head not said here			tree rules
6	go	past	six			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	roll	gerund	six not said here			tree rules
8	join	to-infinitive	six not said here	the rest		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient
9	sort			trees		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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