The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 21
‘What wonder?’ asked the gazelle.
Who acts: wonder · What happens: ask · To what, where: gazelle
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 (wonder), 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 | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 wonder | det |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gazelle | det |
| 8 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | what wonder | the gazelle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gazelle=Recipient |
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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