The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 184
I did not know this was our master,’ and she threw open all the doors so that the master might see everything that the rooms and storehouses contained.
Who acts: I, this, woman, master, rooms · What happens: not know, be, throw, see, contain · To what, where: master, doors, everything · 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, this, woman, master), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 master | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 master | cop |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 threw | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 threw | nsubj |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 threw | xcomp |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 doors | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 doors | det |
| 17 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 threw | obj |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 see | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 master | det |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 threw | advcl |
| 24 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 contained | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rooms | det |
| 27 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 contained | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 storehouses | cc |
| 29 | storehouses | storehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 rooms | conj |
| 30 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 see | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | our master | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | woman | all doors | open property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||
| 4 | see | might | the master | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | contain | participle | the rooms and storehouses | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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