The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 167
‘Then I shall go to your father-in-law and tell him this news.’
Who acts: I · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: law, news, heart · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 law | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 law | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tell | cc |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 news | det |
| 17 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | I | law | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to law=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | I not said here | this news | heart | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient news=Topic |
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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