The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 209
‘All its body pains; there is no part without pain.’
Who acts: body, part · What happens: pain, be
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 (body, part), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pains | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 body | det:predet |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 body | nmod:poss |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pains | nsubj |
| 5 | pains | pain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pains | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 part | det |
| 10 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 pain | case |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 part | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pains | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pain | present | matter's body | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | be | present | no part without pain | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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