The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 198
So, mother, I have done: I want to see the favours I have done to my master, that he may do me the like.’
Who acts: I, cannon · What happens: do, want, see · To what, where: favours, like, me
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, cannon), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 done | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mother | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 want | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 favours | det |
| 14 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 favours | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 master | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 master | nmod:poss |
| 20 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 do | iobj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 like | det |
| 28 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 do | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the favours | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer favour=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | do | present · perfect | I | the favours not said here | to my master | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | do | may | cannon | the like | me | 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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