The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 165
And he said: ‘It is for you to speak.
Who acts: heart, smile, you · What happens: say, be, speak · 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 (heart, 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 | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 speak | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 speak | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 speak | mark |
| 11 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 is | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | present | smile | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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