The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 16
And the man with the cage took out a gazelle, and held it out, saying, ‘Take this one, master!’
Who acts: man · What happens: take out, hold out, say, take · To what, where: gazelle, cage, one · 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 (man), 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 | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cage | det |
| 6 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | nmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 took | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 gazelle | det |
| 10 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 held | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 held | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 took | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Take | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Take | punct |
| 20 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 saying | ccomp |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Take | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 master | punct |
| 24 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Take | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 Take | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | the man with the cage | a gazelle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gazelle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold out | past | the man with the cage not said here | cage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the man with the cage not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | this one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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