The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 212

But his wife stared and said: ‘Oh, master, do you tell her to make the gazelle gruel out of red millet, which a horse would not eat?

Who acts: wife, you, gazelle, horse · What happens: stare, say, tell, make, gruel, not eat · To what, where: master, wife, gazelle, red millet · 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 (wife, you, gazelle, horse), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 stared	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stared	nsubj
4	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stared	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 master	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 master	punct
9	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 master	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Oh	punct
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 tell	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tell	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gazelle	det
20	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
21	gruel	gruel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 make	xcomp
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 millet	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 millet	case
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 millet	amod
25	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gruel	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eat	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 eat	obj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 horse	det
29	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eat	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 eat	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 eat	advmod
32	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 millet	acl:relcl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stare	past	son's wife				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	son's wife not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	you	master	wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	the gazelle			tree rules
5	gruel	infinitive	the gazelle not said here			red millet	tree rules
6	not eat	would	a horse	red millet			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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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