The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 203

And it said, ‘Go and tell my master upstairs the gazelle is very ill.’

Who acts: ceremony, master, gazelle · What happens: say, go, tell, upstair, be · 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 (ceremony, master, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Go	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Go	punct
6	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 Go	conj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 master	nmod:poss
10	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 upstairs	nsubj
11	upstairs	upstair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gazelle	det
13	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ill	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ill	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 ill	advmod
16	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 upstairs	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Go	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	ceremony		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	upstair	present	my master		tree rules
5	is	present	the gazelle	ill property	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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