The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 155

The old woman shrieked with delight when she saw her enemy was dead, and ran to bring water to the gazelle, and fanned it, and put it where the wind could blow on it, till it grew better and gave a sneeze.

Who acts: old woman, enemy, wind · What happens: shriek, see, be, run, bring, fan · To what, where: old woman, water, gazelle, enemy, sneeze · 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 (old woman, enemy, wind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
4	shrieked	shriek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 woman	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 delight	case
6	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shrieked	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 enemy	nmod:poss
11	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dead	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dead	cop
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saw	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ran	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 bring	mark
18	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ran	xcomp
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bring	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 gazelle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gazelle	det
22	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bring	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fanned	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fanned	cc
25	fanned	fan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fanned	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 put	cc
29	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 fanned	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	obj
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 blow	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wind	det
33	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 blow	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 blow	aux
35	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 put	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 blow	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 grew	punct
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 grew	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 grew	nsubj
41	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 blow	parataxis
42	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 grew	xcomp
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 gave	cc
44	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 grew	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 sneeze	det
46	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 gave	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	shriek	participle		the old woman not said here			with delight	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with delight=Theme
2	see	past	the old woman					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	woman's enemy				dead property	tree rules
4	run	past	the old woman not said here					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	bring	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	water	the gazelle			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme to gazelle=Destination
6	fan	past	the old woman not said here	water				tree rules
7	put	infinitive	the old woman not said here	water				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
8	blow	could	the wind			enemy		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
9	grow	past	wind				good property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	give	past	wind not said here	a sneeze				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sneeze=Theme

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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