The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 187
And let some sweep, and some spread the beds, and some cook, and some draw water, and some come out and receive the mistress.’
Who acts: you, some · What happens: let, spread, draw, come out, receive · To what, where: sweep, beds, water, mistress
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 (you, some), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 let | cc |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 sweep | det |
| 4 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 let | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spread | cc |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 spread | nsubj |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beds | det |
| 10 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spread | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cook | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cook | cc |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 cook | det |
| 14 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 draw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 draw | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 draw | nsubj |
| 18 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | conj |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 draw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 come | cc |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 come | nsubj |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 let | parataxis |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 receive | cc |
| 26 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 come | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mistress | det |
| 28 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 receive | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | some sweep | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweep=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spread | present | some | the beds | some cook obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bed=Theme | |||
| 3 | draw | present | some | water | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come out | present | some | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | receive | infinitive | some not said here | the mistress | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Theme |
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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