The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 161

For two days it lay and rested in the house, and fed on milk and rice, and on the third day it bade the old woman farewell and started back to its master.

Who acts: slave · What happens: lie, rest, feed, bade, start back · To what, where: house, old woman

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 (slave), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rested	cc
7	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rested	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fed	cc
13	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lay	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 milk	case
15	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fed	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rice	cc
17	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 milk	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bade	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bade	cc
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 day	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 day	det
22	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 day	amod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bade	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bade	nsubj
25	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woman	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bade	obj
29	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	25 bade	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 started	cc
31	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 bade	conj
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 started	advmod
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 master	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 master	nmod:poss
35	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 started	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	slave			day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	past	slave not said here		the house			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
3	feed	participle	slave not said here				on milk and rice	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on milk=Patient
4	bade	past	slave	the old woman		day	farewell property	tree rules
5	start back	past	slave not said here				to slave's master	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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