The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 200
In the morning, when light came, the gazelle was sick in its stomach and feverish, and its legs ached.
Who acts: light, gazelle, legs · What happens: come, be, ache · To what, where: stomach
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 (light, gazelle, legs), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 came | advmod |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sick | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gazelle | det |
| 10 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sick | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sick | cop |
| 12 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 came | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 stomach | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sick | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 feverish | cc |
| 17 | feverish | feverish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stomach | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ached | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ached | cc |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 legs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ached | nsubj |
| 22 | ached | ache | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | light | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the gazelle | light's stomach and feverish | sick property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ache | past | light's legs | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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