The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 172
But the gazelle replied: ‘My lord, you cannot help it, for he wishes to go home, and nothing will stop him.’
Who acts: gazelle, lord, nothing · What happens: reply, not help, wish, go, stop · To what, where: sword, lord · 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, lord, nothing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gazelle | det |
| 3 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lord | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 help | advmod |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wishes | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 wishes | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wishes | nsubj |
| 18 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wishes | xcomp |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stop | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stop | cc |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 stop | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 stop | aux |
| 26 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 help | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stop | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the gazelle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not help | can | My lord | sword | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | lord | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | lord not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stop | future | nothing | lord | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=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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