The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 164

And the gazelle answered: ‘I am well, and where I come from it is well, and I wish that after four days you would take your wife and go home.’

Who acts: gazelle, I, smile, you · What happens: answer, be, come, wish, take, go · To what, where: wife · 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, I, smile, you), 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	_	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 well	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 well	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 well	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 well	cop
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 answered	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 come	cc
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 come	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	18 well	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 well	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 well	cop
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wish	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wish	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 wish	nsubj
22	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 answered	conj
23	that	that	ADV	_	22 wish	advmod
24	after	after	ADP	_	26 days	case
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 days	nummod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 take	obl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 take	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 take	aux
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wish	ccomp
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 go	cc
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 take	conj
34	home	home	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the gazelle				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	I			well property	tree rules
3	come	present	I				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	smile			well property	tree rules
5	wish	present	I			that property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	take	would	you	your wife	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
7	go	infinitive	you not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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