The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 182

The gazelle did not like this, and said to her: ‘Old woman, leave me alone; the one to be carried is my master, and the one to be kissed is my master.’

Who acts: gazelle, one · What happens: not like, say, leave, carry, be, kiss · To what, where: this, Old woman, woman, me, master · 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, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gazelle	det
2	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 like	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 woman	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 woman	punct
14	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 leave	punct
17	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 woman	parataxis
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 leave	obj
19	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 leave	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 master	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 master	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	25 carried	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 carried	aux:pass
25	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 one	acl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 master	cop
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 master	nmod:poss
28	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 woman	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 master	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 master	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 master	nsubj
33	to	to	PART	_	35 kissed	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 kissed	aux:pass
35	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 one	acl
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 master	cop
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 master	nmod:poss
38	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 woman	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the gazelle	this			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		Old woman and my master and my master	woman		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	leave	infinitive		me		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	carry	to-infinitive · passive	the one not said here				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»
5	is a	present	the one	my master			tree rules
6	kiss	to-infinitive · passive	the one not said here				vn marry-36.2 «NP V»
7	is a	present	the one	my master			tree rules

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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