The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 154
Then the sword fell rattling on the ground, for the gazelle had fainted.
Who acts: sword · What happens: fall, rattle, faint · To what, where: ground, gazelle
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 (sword), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rattling | rattle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 fell | xcomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rattling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fainted | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 fainted | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gazelle | det |
| 12 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fainted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fainted | aux |
| 14 | fainted | faint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the sword | then | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rattle | gerund | the sword not said here | the ground | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | ||||
| 3 | faint | past · perfect · passive | the gazelle | 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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