The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 20
And the man answered, ‘How is it that I see a wonder?’
Who acts: man, master · What happens: answer, be, see · To what, where: master, wonder
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 (man, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 7 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 it | advmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 it | cop |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj:outer |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wonder | det |
| 14 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | master | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | present | master | a wonder | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wonder=Stimulus |
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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