The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 157
‘Show me this house,’ it said, ‘from beginning to end, from top to bottom, from inside to out.’
Who acts: house · What happens: show, say, begin · To what, where: house, me, top · 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 (house), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Show | punct |
| 2 | Show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Show | iobj |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Show | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Show | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Show | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beginning | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 beginning | punct |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 13 beginning | mark |
| 13 | beginning | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beginning | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 top | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beginning | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 bottom | case |
| 20 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 top | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 inside | punct |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 inside | case |
| 23 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 13 beginning | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 inside | fixed |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 to | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | infinitive | this house | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient house=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | house | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin | gerund | top to bottom | to end | inside property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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