The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 19
Then, as he slept, the gazelle woke him, saying, ‘Master.’
Who acts: beggar, gazelle · What happens: sleep, wake, say · To what, where: beggar, 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 (beggar, gazelle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 woke | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 slept | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 slept | nsubj |
| 5 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 woke | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 slept | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gazelle | det |
| 8 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | nsubj |
| 9 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 woke | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saying | punct |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 woke | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Master | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Master | punct |
| 15 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saying | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 woke | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | beggar | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wake | past | the gazelle | beggar | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the gazelle not said here | Master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic |
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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