The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 160
But the gazelle answered, ‘You must keep them safe till I call my master.’
Who acts: gazelle, You, I · What happens: answer, keep, call · To what, where: Gazelles, master · 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 (gazelle, You, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gazelle | det |
| 3 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
| 7 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | aux |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 call | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 call | nsubj |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | advcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 call | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the gazelle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | must | You | Gazelles = gazelle | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | call | present | I | my master | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient |
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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