The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 181
When the old woman saw them coming through the courtyard she jumped and shouted for joy, and as the gazelle drew near she seized it in her arms, and kissed it.
Who acts: old woman, mistress, woman · What happens: see, come, jump, shout, draw, seize · To what, where: mistress, courtyard, joy, arms
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 (old woman, mistress, woman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 kissed | advcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 courtyard | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 courtyard | det |
| 10 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 jumped | nsubj |
| 12 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 courtyard | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shouted | cc |
| 14 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 jumped | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shouted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drew | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 gazelle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gazelle | det |
| 21 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drew | obl |
| 22 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 seized | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seized | nsubj |
| 25 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drew | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seized | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 arms | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 arms | nmod:poss |
| 29 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seized | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 kissed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 kissed | cc |
| 32 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 kissed | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the old woman | mistress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | mistress not said here | the courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through courtyard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | woman | the courtyard not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courtyard=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | past | woman not said here | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | draw | past | the old woman not said here | as the gazelle | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as gazelle=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | seize | past | woman | joy | woman's arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 7 | kiss | past | joy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-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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