The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 156
And the heart of the old woman was glad, and she gave it more water, till by-and-by the gazelle got up.
Who acts: heart, woman · What happens: be, give, get up · To what, where: sneeze
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 (heart, woman), 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 | _ | 9 glad | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glad | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 woman | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glad | cop |
| 9 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 glad | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 got | punct |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 25 gazelle | case |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 till | fixed |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 by | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 by | cc |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 by | punct |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 gazelle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gazelle | det |
| 25 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 got | obl |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 got | compound:prt |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the heart of the old woman | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | woman | sneeze | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get up | past | woman not said here | till the gazelle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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