The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 169

So the gazelle went to the father-in-law and said: ‘I am sent by my master to come and tell you that after four days he will go away with his wife to his own home.’

Who acts: gazelle, master, son · What happens: go, say, send, come, tell, go away · To what, where: law, I, you, own home · 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, master, son), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gazelle	det
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	11 law	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 law	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 law	nsubj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 law	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 law	case
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 in	punct
11	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 sent	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 sent	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sent	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sent	aux:pass
18	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	ccomp
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 master	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sent	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sent	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tell	cc
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 go	mark
28	after	after	ADP	_	30 days	case
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 days	nummod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 go	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 go	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 go	aux
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tell	ccomp
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 wife	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 wife	nmod:poss
37	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 go	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 home	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 home	nmod:poss
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 home	amod
41	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 go	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the gazelle			the law			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to law=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the gazelle not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	send	present · passive	my master	I					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	come	to-infinitive	my master not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	my master not said here		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go away	future	son			son's own home	day	with son's wife; away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location

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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